Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-03

ety. The most eminent scientists of Eng land, Franco and Germany, including Professor Huxley. Sir Archibald Geikic and Sir John Lubbock. have also been asked to be present.
 Tho American Association For tho Advancement of Science has been in cx- istence 43 years, and the researches of its members and its public annual deliber- ations have beenof incalculable bcnefitto the cause of science. Tho 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 peculiarities which characterize them. President Brinton was born in Chester county, Pa, May 13, 1S37. Ho was graduated at Yale ill 1858 and at the Jefferson Medical college in 1861. After year of travel in Europe ho re- turned to America and entered the Fed cral army as acting assistant surgeon. In 1863 he was commissioned surgeon and served as surgeon in chief of the Second division, Eleventh corps. He saw about all that there was to sec of the horrors of war at Charlottesville, Get tysburg and other engagements, and ill October of tho same year was appointed medical director of his corps.
 At the battle of Gettysburg he re- ceived sunstrOke and was disqualified from service. He soon became superin- tendcnt of hospitals at Quincy and | Springfield. Ills, and remained on duty | there until the close of the war, when he was brcvcttcd lieutenant colonel and discharged After the war ho settled in Philadelphia, became the editor of a | medical and surgical publication and has since been Il frequent contributor to the columns uf such journals
 | Dr. BrintOu has for many years been | prominent as n student of and writer on | American ethnOlogy. and the subject has fascinated him ever since he was n | student in college. In 1884 he was ap- | pointed professor of cthnology and ar chnoloGy ill the Academy of Natural | Sciences, Philadelphia, and for several l years he has been president of the Nu- mismatic 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 library and pub fishing house of aboriginal American literature for the purpose of placing within the reach of scholars authentic materials for tho study of tho languages and culture of tho Indians of America
 Each work is the production of n 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 ethnological subjects make quite a library in themselves
 | It Is believed that over 1, 900 dele
 gates will attend the sessions of the as- sociation in Brooklyn. They will find pleasure as we'll as profit awaiting them. for they will be entertained by excur- sions to Long Branch. Cold Spring liar
 bor and West Point.