slake known as civilisation. ,• rcheology has to solve also the 
problems of chronology, to determine the place of the race in 
the geological scale., and the- ordinary scale of tine* The solu- 
tions a 4-a.lt, however, prolonged and profound studies which in- 
volve also the sciences of geology, biology, climatology, geog- 
r 
raphy , and oven astronomy, for man 1 ® career ii the world has in- 
timate relations with all of these. 
It is believed that the time has now arrived when the many 
misconceptions regarding *he scope and significance of anthro- 
pological science - the science of human history - roust dis- 
appear an 1 the importance of its position in the hierarchy of 
•#!•! - ’ ' ■ -• iy mm% An,*.;. The Aeeond pan American 
Scientific Congress has had a goodly share in the promotion 
of this great end. 
