Tylor

(Edward Burnet), D.C.L., F.R.S., English anthropologist, b. Camber well, 2 Oct. 1832. He has devoted himself to the study of the races of mankind, and is the first living authority upon the subject. He has wrote Anahuac , or Mexico and the Mexicans, ’61; Researches into the Early History of Mankind , ’65; Primitive Culture ; being researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom (2 vols.), ’71. In this splendid work he traces religion to animism, the belief in spirits. He has also written an excellent handbook of Anthropology , an introduction to the Study of Man and Civilisation, ’81; and contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica , as well as to periodical literature. He is President of the Anthropological Society.