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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