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nographic charts. Practice in preserving, mounting, arranging, and classifying specimens. Tests for the detection of frauds. Incrustations, dendrites, etc. Practice in reducing unknown tongues to writing, by the ear. Practice in the repetition of unfamiliar phonetic elements. Study of the actions of the lingual muscles in the production of sounds. LIBRARY WORK. Researches in the history of anthropology. Making lists of works and articles on special subjects, with brief abstracts. Notes of the proceedings of anthropological societies and the contents of journals. Presentation of the theories of particular writers on the science. Familiarize the student with the past and present literature of his branch. FIELD WORK. Methods of surveying, photographing, and plotting ancient remains. Plans for taking field-notes. Instruction in the proper methods of opening mounds, shell heaps, etc., and in excavating rock-shelters and caverns. The preserving and packing of specimens. Study of quaternary geology; alluvial deposits; river terraces; glacial scratches; moraines; river drift; loess; elevation and subsidence. The collection of languages and dialects; of folk-lore, and local peculiarities. TEXT-BOOKS. As the plan of study here proposed is largely that which I have pursued and developed in my own lectures and published works on the subject, I may be permitted to insert the following list of these:-- _Anthropology and Ethnology._ 4to, pp. 184. In Vol. I of the Iconographic Encyclopaedia (Philadelphia, 1886). _Prehistoric Archaeology._ 4to, pp. 116. In Vol. II of the Iconographic Encyclopaedia (Philadelphia, 1886). _Races and Peoples; Lectures on the Science of Ethnography._ 8vo, pp. 313 (N. D. C. Hodges, New York, 1890). _The American Race; a Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America._ 8vo, pp. 392 (N. D. C. Hodges, New York, 1891). In addition to these I would name the following as among the best works for the student of this branch:-- _Anthropologische Methoden._ By Dr. Emil Schmidt (Leipzig, 1888). _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
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