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BY
DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D.,
PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN ARCHÆOLOGY 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.
This very brief presentation of the claims of Anthropology for arecognized place in institutions of the higher education in the UnitedStates will, I hope, receive the thoughtful consideration of theofficers and patrons of our Universities and Post-Graduate Departments.
The need of such a presentation was urged upon me not long since by thedistinguished president of a New England University. Impressed with theforce of his words, I make an earnest appeal to our seats of advancedlearning to establish a branch of Anthropology on the broad lines hereinsuggested. It may be but one chair in their Faculties of Philosophy; butthe rightful claims of this science will be recognized only when it isorganized as a department by itself, with a competent corps ofprofessors and docents, with well-appointed laboratories and museums,and with fellowships for deserving students.
Who is the enlightened and liberal citizen ready to found such adepartment, and endow it with the means necessary to carry out bothinstruction and original research?
I do not plead for any one institution, or locality, or individual; butsimply for the creation in the United States of the opportunity ofstudying this highest of the sciences in a manner befitting itsimportance.