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Title: Anthropology
As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States

Author: Daniel Garrison Brinton

Release Date: February 22, 2010 [eBook #31360]

Language: English

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ANTHROPOLOGY:

As a Science and As a Branch of University Education
in the United States.

by

DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D.,

Professor of American Archaeology and Linguistics in the University
of Pennsylvania, and of General Ethnology at the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia; Corresponding Member of the Anthropological
Societies of Washington, New York, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg,
Vienna, Munich, Florence, Etc.

Philadelphia:
1892.

PREFATORY NOTE.

This very brief presentation of the claims of Anthropology for a
recognized place in institutions of the higher education in the United
States will, I hope, receive the thoughtful consideration of the
officers and patrons of our Universities and Post-Graduate Departments.

The need of such a presentation was urged upon me not long since by the
distinguished president of a New England University. Impressed with the
force of his words, I make an earnest appeal to our seats of advanced
learning to establish a branch of Anthropology on the broad lines herein
suggested. It may be but one chair in their Faculties of Philosophy; but
the rightful claims of this science will be