Anthropology Part 3

_Elements d'Anthropologie Generale._ By Dr. Paul Topinard (Paris).

Also L'Homme dans la Nature (Paris, 1891), by the same author.

_Precis d'Anthropologie._ By Hovelacque and Herve (Paris).

_Allgemeine Ethnographie._ By Friederich Muller.

_Die Urgeschichte des Menschen._ By Moritz h.o.e.rnes (Leipzig, 1891).

_La Prehistorique Antiquite de l'Homme._ By G. de Mortillet (Paris).

_Anthropology._ By Dr. Tylor (New York).

_Elements[TN-2] de Sociologie._ By Ch. Letourneau (Paris).

To this list I add the names of some others of the distinguished foreign living writers on various departments of Anthropology:--

In France: Bertrand, Collignon, Letourneau, de Nadaillac. In England: Buckland, Flower, Gallon, M. Muller. In Germany: Andree, Bastian, Meyer, F. Muller, Ranke, Schaafhausen, Steinthal, Virchow, Ratzel, Gerland. In Italy: Giglioli, Mantegazza.

It is highly likely that many modifications and improvements on this scheme will suggest themselves to instructors; but I may say for it that it is the carefully considered result of a comparison of the methods employed in the European schools, combined with a personal experience of some years in the presentation of the topics to cla.s.ses.

Of course, the amount of attention which will be given to the separate divisions of the subject will depend on the position which the branch occupies in the student's plan of studies--whether a major or a minor.

If the latter, he should attend a course of thirty or forty lectures about equally divided between the four headings under which the science is here presented, and should give double as many hours to laboratory work.

This is the minimum which would give him any adequate notion of the science. If, on the other hand, it be taken as a major, or princ.i.p.al subject, the greater part of his time for two or three years will be fully occupied in preparing himself for independent work, or for the instruction of others.