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VOL. LVI
NOVEMBER, 1899, TO APRIL, 1900
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1900
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April, 1900.
Familiar as we are with the methods of science—exact observationand record, comparison, and the strict weeding outof hypotheses—yet such methods have only gradually been appliedto various branches of learning.
Geometry became a science long ago, zoölogy much later, medicineonly a generation or two ago, and the history of man is butjust being developed into a science. What was done for othersciences by the pioneers of the past is now being done in the presentday for archæology. We now have to devise methods, to form anotation for recording facts, and to begin to lay out our groundworkof knowledge. With