Report of the Board of Regents (Volume 1898) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1890. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PKOGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1889. By Prof. Otis T. Mason. INTRODUCTION. Merely for the convenience of bringing together those subjects that are most akin, and not to draw hard and fast lines in a vigorously growing science, the same method will be pursued here as in last year's summary. The order of presentation will be: General or Encyclopaedic Anthropology, Biology, Psychology, Ethnology, Language, Technology, Archaeology, Sociology, Philosophy, Folk-lore and Religion, and Hexiology. Under the headiug of Encyclopaedic Anthropology, the following classific concepts cover the entire ground: (1) General treatises, annual addresses, courses of lectures, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, general discussions, classifications of the science. (2) Societies, their organization, scope, enterprises, history, and lists of their publications. (3) Journals, proceedings and transactions, the organs of associated bodies. (4) Periodicals, like I/An thropologie, devoted wholly or in part to anthropology. (5) Annual assemblies, caucused, congresses, general meetings of a national or international character. (6) Laboratories for general study. (7) Museums and collections, public and private, their scope, contents, methods, catalogues and history. Expositions. (8) Albums, galleries, portfolios, methods of illustrating anthropology. (9) Libraries on anthropology, catalogues, bibliographies, check-lists, and devices for ready reference, classification of books. (10) Instructions to collectors. I.--GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY. (1) Each year some distinguished anthropologist brings together the results of his lifetime work in a general treatise upon the natural history of man. In accordance with this unwritten law the historian calls attention to the works of Sergi ami Tamer in the curre...