The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-08

ETY.. The most eminent scientists of Eng
land, France and Germany, including
Professor Huxley. Sir Archibald Geikie
and Sir John Lubbock, have also been
asked to be present.
The American Association For tho
Advancement of Science has been in ex-
istence 43 years, and the researches of its
members and its public annual deliber-
atoms have beenOf incalculable benefit to
the cause of science. The president of the
association is Daniel Garrison Brinton,
the eminent ethnOlogist, who probably
knows as much as any man living about
the division Of mankind into races, their
origin, distribution and relations and
the pecuIiarities which characterize
them President BrintOn was born in
Chester county, Pa, May 13, 1887. He
was graduated at Yale in 1853 and at
the Jefferson Medical college in 1861.
After year of travel in Europe he re-
turned to America and entered the Fed
eral army as acting assistant surgeon.
In 1868 he was commissioned surgeon
and served as surgeon in chief Of the
Second division, Eleventh corps. He saw
about all that there was to see of the
horrors of war at Charlottesville, Get
tysburg and other engagements, and in
October of the same year was appointed
medical director of his corps.
At the battle of Gettysburg he re-
ceived a sunstroke and was disqualified
from service He soon became superin-
tendent of hospitals at Quincy and
Springfield, Ills, and remained on duty
there until the close of the war, when
he was brevetted lieutenant colonel and
discharged After the war he settled in
Philadelphia, became the editor Of a
medical and surgical publication and
the columns of such journals.
DR. Brinton has for many years been
prominent as a student Of and writer on
American ethnology. and the subject
has fascinated him ever since he was
student in college In 1884 he was ap-
pointed professor Of ethnology and ar
chRology in the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia, and for several
years he has been president of the NJ
nismatic and Antiquarian society Of
the Quaker City. In 1886 he was elected
vice president of the American Associa-
ton For the Advancement of Science,
to preside over the section devoted to
anthropology, and the same year had the
honor Of being the first American
awarded the medal of the Societe Amer
icaine de France for his numerous cru
dite works on American ethnology.
He has established a library and pub
fishing house of aboriginal American
literature for the purpose of placing
within the reach of scholars authentic
materials for the study Of the languages
and culture Of the Indians Of America
Each work is the production of native
mind and is printed in the original Ian
guage. DR.. Brinton has also made valu-
able reports on his Investigations Of
mounds, shell heaps, rock inscriptions
and other evidences of the races that
preceded the American Indian and has
shed much light on these interesting
mysteries Of early life on this continent.
The numerous books he has written on
medical and chronological subjects make
quite a library in themselves
It is believed that over 1000 dele
gates will attend the sessions of the as
ISOLATION in Brooklyn They viii find
pleasure rs well rs profit awaiting them,
for they will be entertained by excur-
sions to Long Branch. Cold Spring Har-
Dor and West Point