Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Module 2 Adding Media and Special Effects Creating a Mix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 121
Using Media in a Presentation for a Adding Interactive Content to a Mix . . . . . . PPT 124
Nonprofit River Cleaning Organization . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 69
Previewing and Uploading a Mix . . . . . . . . . PPT 126
Session 2.1 Visual Overview: Session 2.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 129
Formatting Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 70 Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 130
Applying a Theme Used in Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 132
Another Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 72
Inserting Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 74 Module 3 Applying Advanced Formatting to Objects
Formatting Objects in a Presentation
Rotating and Flipping Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 77
for a Study Abroad Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 137
Formatting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 79
Formatting Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 79 Session 3.1 Visual Overview:
Formatting Pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 81 Creating a Chart on a Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 138
Creating and Formatting Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 82 Creating SmartArt Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 140
Creating a Table and Adding Data to It . . . . . PPT 82 Modifying a SmartArt Diagram . . . . . . . . . . PPT 143
Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns . . PPT 83 Animating a SmartArt Diagram . . . . . . . . . . PPT 145
Formatting a Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 85 Adding Audio to Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 146
Filling Cells with Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 90 Adding a Chart to a Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 148
Inserting Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 92 Creating a Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 148
Adding Footers and Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 94 Modifying a Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 153
Session 2.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 97 Inserting and Formatting Text Boxes . . . . . . . . PPT 156
Applying WordArt Styles to Text . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 159
Session 2.2 Visual Overview:
Session 3.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 161
Using Animations and Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 98
Applying Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 100 Session 3.2 Visual Overview:
Applying Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 102 Formatting Shapes and Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 162
Animating Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 102 Editing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 164
Changing How an Animation Starts . . . . . . . PPT 106 Removing the Background from Photos . . . . . . PPT 166
Animating Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 107 Applying Artistic Effects to Photos. . . . . . . . . . PPT 168
Adding and Modifying Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 109 Creating a Custom Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 169
Adding Video to Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 109 Applying Advanced Formatting to Shapes. . . . PPT 173
Trimming Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PPT 111 Making Presentations Accessible . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 177
Setting a Poster Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PPT 112 Adding Alt Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 177
Modifying Video Playback Options . . . . . . . .PPT 113 Checking the Order Objects
Understanding Animation Effects Will Be Read by a Screen Reader . . . . . . . . . PPT 179
Applied to Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PPT 115 Renaming Objects in the Selection Pane . . . PPT 180
Compressing and Optimizing Media . . . . . . . . .PPT 116 Session 3.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 181
Using the Office Mix Add-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 118 Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 182
Installing Office Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PPT 119 Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 184
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Module 4 Advanced Animations and Distributing Module 5 Integrating PowerPoint with Other
Presentations Programs
Creating an Advanced Presentation for Agricultural Creating a Presentation for a Rowing
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 189 Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 241
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viii New Perspectives Series
Module 6 Customizing Presentations and the Fill a Shape with a Gradient of a Color
PowerPoint Environment Used on the Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 313
Creating a Presentation for a Race Track . . . . . . . . . PPT 291 Session 6.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 319
Sharing and Collaborating with Others . . . . . . PPT 294 Saving a Presentation as a Template. . . . . . . . . PPT 322
Creating a Custom Show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 324
Comparing Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 294
Working with File Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 326
Working with Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 296
Checking for Accessibility Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 329
Modifying Themes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 299
Encrypting a Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 331
Changing Theme Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 299
Marking the Presentation as Final. . . . . . . . . . . PPT 334
Changing Theme Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 302
Presenting Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 336
Working in Slide Master View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 303
Session 6.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 338
Modifying the Slide Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 304
Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 339
Modifying Individual Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 305
Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 340
Modifying the Style of Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 306
Creating a Custom Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PPT 309 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REF 1
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Productivity Apps for
OneNote
Sway
Office Mix
Corinne Hoisington
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Introduction to OneNote 2016
notebook | section tab | To Do tag | screen clipping | note | template | Microsoft OneNote
Bottom Line Mobile app | sync | drawing canvas | inked handwriting | Ink to Text
• OneNote is a note-taking
app for your academic and As you glance around any classroom, you invariably see paper notebooks and notepads
professional life. on each desk. Because deciphering and sharing handwritten notes can be a challenge,
• Use OneNote to get organized Microsoft OneNote 2016 replaces physical notebooks, binders, and paper notes with a
by gathering your ideas, searchable, digital notebook. OneNote captures your ideas and schoolwork on any device
sketches, webpages, photos, so you can stay organized, share notes, and work with others on projects. Whether you
videos, and notes in one place. are a student taking class notes as shown in Figure 1 or an employee taking notes in
company meetings, OneNote is the one place to keep notes for all of your projects.
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open OneNote on your phone to study later. To use a notebook stored on your com-
puter with your OneNote Mobile app, move the notebook to OneDrive. You can
quickly share notebook content with other people using OneDrive.
Notes synced to
OneDrive and
displayed on a
smartphone
Taking Notes
Use OneNote pages to organize your notes by class and topic or lecture. Beyond sim-
ple typed notes, OneNote stores drawings, converts handwriting to searchable text and On the Job Now
mathematical sketches to equations, and records audio and video. OneNote is ideal for taking notes
OneNote includes drawing tools that let you sketch freehand drawings such as bio- during meetings, whether you are
logical cell diagrams and financial supply-and-demand charts. As shown in Figure 3, the recording minutes, documenting
Draw tab on the ribbon provides these drawing tools along with shapes so you can insert a discussion, sketching product
diagrams and other illustrations to represent your ideas. When you draw on a page, One- diagrams, or listing follow-up
Note creates a drawing canvas, which is a container for shapes and lines. items. Use a meeting template
to add pages with content
appropriate for meetings.
Figure 3: Tools on the Draw tab
Draw tab
Pens and
highlighters
are in the
Tools group.
Insert rectangles Lines and shapes are
and lines from the in the Shapes group.
Shapes group.
Make drawings
using pens in
Insert text the Tools group.
using the Type
button in the
Tools group.
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Figure 4: Converting handwriting to text
Handwriting
Writing inserted converted to
with a fingertip searchable text
Video recording
Math Lecture
video file
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Try This Now Learn to use OneNote!
Links to companion Sways,
1: Taking Notes for a Week
featuring videos with hands-on
As a student, you can get organized by using OneNote to take detailed notes in your
instructions, are located on
classes. Perform the following tasks:
www.cengagebrain.com.
a. Create a new OneNote notebook on your Microsoft OneDrive account (the
default location for new notebooks). Name the notebook with your first name
followed by “Notes,” as in Caleb Notes.
b. Create four section tabs, each with a different class name.
c. TTake detailed notes in those classes for one week. Be sure to include notes, drawings, and other types of content.
d. Sync your notes with your OneDrive. Submit your assignment in the format specified by your instructor.
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Introduction to Sway
Sway site | responsive design | Storyline | card | Creative Commons license | animation
Bottom Line emphasis effects | Docs.com
• Drag photos, videos, and
Expressing your ideas in a presentation typically means creating PowerPoint slides
files from your computer and
or a Word document. Microsoft Sway gives you another way to engage an audience.
content from Facebook and
Sway is a free Microsoft tool available at Sway.com or as an app in Office 365.
Twitter directly to your Sway
Using Sway, you can combine text, images, videos, and social media in a website
presentation.
called a Sway site that you can share and display on any device. To get started,
• Run Sway in a web browser or
you create a digital story on a web-based canvas without borders, slides, cells, or
as an app on your smartphone,
page breaks. A Sway site organizes the text, images, and video into a responsive
and save presentations as
design, which means your content adapts perfectly to any screen size as shown in
webpages.
Figure 6. You store a Sway site in the cloud on OneDrive using a free Microsoft
account.
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Sway uses
responsive
design to make
sure pages fit
perfectly on
any device.
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Figure 7: Creating a Sway site
Suggested images in
the search results
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Designing a Sway
Sway professionally designs your Storyline content by resizing background images and
On the Job Now fonts to fit your display, and by floating text, animating media, embedding video, and
If your project team wants to col-
removing images as a page scrolls out of view. Sway also evaluates the images in your
laborate on a Sway presentation, Storyline and suggests a color palette based on colors that appear in your photos. Use
click the Authors button on the the Design button to display tools including color palettes, font choices, animation
navigation bar to invite others to emphasis effects, and style templates to provide a personality for a Sway presentation.
edit the presentation. Instead of creating your own design, you can click the Remix button, which randomly
selects unique designs for your Sway site.
Publishing a Sway
Use the Play button to display your finished Sway presentation as a website. The
Address bar includes a unique web address where others can view your Sway site. As
the author, you can edit a published Sway site by clicking the Edit button (pencil icon)
on the Sway toolbar.
Sharing a Sway
When you are ready to share your Sway website, you have several options as shown in
Figure 9. Use the Share slider button to share the Sway site publically or keep it private.
If you add the Sway site to the Microsoft Docs.com public gallery, anyone worldwide can
use Bing, Google, or other search engines to find, view, and share your Sway site. You can
also share your Sway site using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Yammer, and other social
media sites. Link your presentation to any webpage or email the link to your audience.
Sway can also generate a code for embedding the link within another webpage.
Share button
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Try This Now Learn to use Sway!
Links to companion Sways,
1: Creating a Sway Resume
featuring videos with hands-on
Sway is a digital storytelling app. Create a Sway resume to share the skills, job experi-
instructions, are located on
ences, and achievements you have that match the requirements of a future job interest.
www.cengagebrain.com.
Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a new presentation in Sway to use as a digital resume. Title the Sway
Storyline with your full name and then select a background image.
b. Create three separate sections titled Academic Background, Work Experience, and Skills, and insert text, a picture,
and a paragraph or bulleted points in each section. Be sure to include your own picture.
c. Add a fourth section that includes a video about your school that you find online.
d. Customize the design of your presentation.
e. Submit your assignment link in the format specified by your instructor.
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Introduction to Office Mix
add-in | clip | slide recording | Slide Notes | screen recording | free-response quiz
Bottom Line
• Office Mix is a free PowerPoint To enliven business meetings and lectures, Microsoft adds a new dimension to pre-
add-in from Microsoft that adds sentations with a powerful toolset called Office Mix, a free add-in for PowerPoint. (An
features to PowerPoint. add-in is software that works with an installed app to extend its features.) Using Office
• The Mix tab on the PowerPoint Mix, you can record yourself on video, capture still and moving images on your desk-
ribbon provides tools for creat- top, and insert interactive elements such as quizzes and live webpages directly into
ing screen recordings, videos, PowerPoint slides. When you post the finished presentation to OneDrive, Office Mix
interactive quizzes, and live provides a link you can share with friends and colleagues. Anyone with an Internet
webpages. connection and a web browser can watch a published Office Mix presentation, such as
the one in Figure 10, on a computer or mobile device.
Click to continue
to the next slide.
Display a list of
slides with titles.
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Capturing Video Clips
A clip is a short segment of audio, such as music, or video. After finishing the content
on a PowerPoint slide, you can use Office Mix to add a video clip to animate or illus- On the Job Now
trate the content. Office Mix creates video clips in two ways: by recording live action Companies are using Office Mix to
on a webcam and by capturing screen images and movements. If your computer has a train employees about new prod-
webcam, you can record yourself and annotate the slide to create a slide recording as ucts, to explain benefit packages
shown in Figure 12. to new workers, and to educate
interns about office procedures.
Choose a video
and audio device
Use inking tools to write to record images
and draw on the slide as and sound.
you record.
When you are making a slide recording, you can record your spoken narration at
the same time. The Slide Notes feature works like a teleprompter to help you focus
on your presentation content instead of memorizing your narration. Use the Inking On the Job Now
tools to make annotations or add highlighting using different pen types and colors.
To make your video recordings
After finishing a recording, edit the video in PowerPoint to trim the length or set
accessible to people with hearing
playback options. impairments, use the Office Mix
The second way to create a video is to capture on-screen images and actions with or closed-captioning tools. You can
without a voiceover. This method is ideal if you want to show how to use your favorite also use closed captions to sup-
website or demonstrate an app such as OneNote. To share your screen with an audi- plement audio that is difficult to
ence, select the part of the screen you want to show in the video. Office Mix captures understand and to provide an aid
for those learning to read.
everything that happens in that area to create a screen recording, as shown in Figure 13.
Office Mix inserts the screen recording as a video in the slide.
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Inserting Quizzes, Live Webpages, and Apps
To enhance and assess audience understanding, make your slides interactive by
adding quizzes, live webpages, and apps. Quizzes give immediate feedback to the
user as shown in Figure 14. Office Mix supports several quiz formats, including a
free-response quiz similar to a short answer quiz, and true/false, multiple-choice,
and multiple-response formats.
Green checkmark
identifies the
correct answer
Randomly shuffle
quiz responses
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Try This Now Learn to use Office Mix!
Links to companion Sways,
1: Creating an Office Mix Tutorial for OneNote
featuring videos with hands-on
Note: This activity requires a microphone on your computer.
instructions, are located on
Office Mix makes it easy to record screens and their contents. Create PowerPoint
www.cengagebrain.com.
slides with an Office Mix screen recording to show OneNote 2016 features. Perform
the following tasks:
a. Create a PowerPoint presentation with the Ion Boardroom template. Create
an opening slide with the title My Favorite OneNote Features and enter your name in the subtitle.
b. Create three additional slides, each titled with a new feature of OneNote. Open OneNote and use the Mix tab in
PowerPoint to capture three separate screen recordings that teach your favorite features.
c. Add a fifth slide that quizzes the user with a multiple-choice question about OneNote and includes four responses.
Be sure to insert a checkmark indicating the correct response.
d. UUpload the completed presentation to your Office Mix dashboard and share the link with your instructor.
e. Submit your assignment link in the format specified by your instructor.
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Introduction to Microsoft Edge
Reading view | Hub | Cortana | Web Note | Inking | sandbox
Bottom Line
• Microsoft Edge is the name of Microsoft Edge is the default web browser developed for the Windows 10 operating
the new web browser built into system as a replacement for Internet Explorer. Unlike its predecessor, Edge lets you
Windows 10. write on webpages, read webpages without advertisements and other distractions,
• Microsoft Edge allows you to and search for information using a virtual personal assistant. The Edge interface is
search the web faster, take web clean and basic, as shown in Figure 16, meaning you can pay more attention to the
notes, read webpages without webpage content.
distractions, and get instant
assistance from Cortana.
Share Web
Note button
Hub (Favorites, reading list,
Refresh (F5) history, and downloads) Make a Web
button button Note button
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INTRODUCTION
In this little book some of the earlier builders on the scrap-heap will
be noted—the Greek philosopher, Aristotle; the Belgian anatomist,
Vesalius; the Englishmen, Tyson and Prichard; the Swede, Linnaeus;
the Frenchman, Buffon; and the German, Blumenbach. These laid
the foundations of the science, and each is claimed as the true
founder of Anthropology. After these the workers become more
numerous and more specialised, and they will be dealt with under
the separate headings of the various branches of the subject in
which they laboured, rather than in a continuous chronological order.
“Meddling with questions of merit or priority is a thorny business at
the best of times,” as Huxley said; and completeness is not here
aimed at. Mention can be made only of those whose work notably
contributed to, or illustrates, the historical growth of the science.
It may be objected that too much attention has been given to the
arm-chair workers, and too little to the labourers in the field. This is
true, especially in the section on Ethnology; but it is necessitated by
the compass of the volume. We attempt a brief sketch of the wood,
and cannot stop to describe the individual trees that compose it.
Detailed investigations, however valuable, have to be merged into
generalisations; and generalisations proceed mainly from the arm-
chairs.
Professor Michael Foster somewhere remarked that “hypothesis is
the salt of science.” The main difficulty with which observers in the
field have to contend is that, as a rule, they can see only what they
look for. When an investigator has left his field and is working up his
results at home, he only too frequently finds that he has omitted to
look for certain customs or beliefs, whose occurrence in other places
he had either over-looked or forgotten. This is the justification for the
questionnaires. It is one of the most important functions of stay-at-
home synthetic students laboriously to cull data from the vast
literature of anthropology, travel, and ancient and modern history,
and to weld them into coherent hypotheses. The student at home in
this way suggests fresh inquiries to the field ethnologist, and a richer
harvest is the result. The most valuable generalisations are made,
however, when the observer is at the same time a generaliser; but
“doubtless,” as Maharbal said to Hannibal after the battle of Cannae,
“the gods have not bestowed everything on the same man. You,
Hannibal, know how to conquer; but you do not know how to use
your victory.”
The vastness of the anthropological sciences and the nebulous
character of their demarcation from other sciences render their
definition or classification a peculiarly difficult matter. Even at the
present day students are not agreed upon the exact terminology and
limitations of the various branches of their subject; but, after all,
these are little more than academic discussions, since investigations
go on irrespective of boundary lines. Those who are really worried
about this “terminological inexactitude” are the cataloguers and
librarians, who frequently are at a loss where to place items in their
catalogues or books on their shelves. It was mainly from this point of
view that Dieserud was constrained to write his Science of
Anthropology: Its Scope and Content.[1] This useful little book deals
very fully in historical order with the questions referred to above, and
it may be recommended to those who are interested in these
somewhat profitless discussions.
1. This is the title on the back of the book. Its designation on the title-page is
given correctly in the Bibliography.
The meaning of the word was scarcely clear in the beginning of the
nineteenth century, when we find, in the British Encyclopædia of
1822, the following definitions, “A discourse upon human nature,”
and “Among Divines, that manner of expression by which the
inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.”
Concerning the present use of the term “Anthropology,” few will
take exception to the definition given by Topinard in his
l’Anthropologie (1876): “Anthropology is the branch of natural history
which treats of man and the races of man.” It may be yet more
succinctly described as “the science of man,” which comprises two
main divisions—the one which deals with the natural man
(ανθρωπος, or homo); the other which is concerned with man in
relation to his fellows, or, in other words, with social man (εθνορ, or
socius). At the end of the Introduction we give the classification
which we propose to adopt. It should, however, be stated that,
whereas in this country we employ the term “Anthropology” to cover
the whole subject, it is common on the Continent to restrict the term
to what we designate as “Physical Anthropology,” “Anthropography,”
or “Somatology.”
In the time of Aristotle Man took his place naturally at the head of
the other animals, being distinguished from the brutes by certain
characters. But the influence of religion and of philosophy did not
long permit of this association. Man came to be regarded as the chef
d’œuvre of creation, a thing apart, a position aptly described in the
words of Saint Paul (marginal version) “for a little while inferior to the
angels.”
In the eighteenth century came a startling change. Man was
wrenched from this detached and isolated attitude, and linked on
once more to the beasts of the field. This was the work of Linnæus.
Linnæus. The year 1707 is memorable in the history of
Anthropology as the date of the birth of two of its
greatest men, Linnæus[12] (1707-1778) and Buffon (1707-1788). Both
devoted long lives to science, and both produced monumental works
of permanent value; but it would be hard to find two contemporary
figures engaged in the same pursuit whose lives presented a greater
contrast.
12. By a patent of nobility conferred in 1757 Linnæus became Karl von Linné.
Linnæus was the son of a poor pastor, and his mother was the
daughter of the former pastor of the same small Swedish parish. At
the early age of four young Karl is said to have taken an interest in
botany, and to have begun to ask questions that his father could not
answer. Either to escape this interrogation, or for wiser motives, the
father made it a rule never to answer the same question twice, and
to this early discipline Linnæus used to trace his tenacious memory.
The boy was intended for the ministry, and was early sent to school;
but, as he devoted all his time to botany, his progress in theology
was nil, and when, after two years, his father visited the school, and
learnt of the disappointing result of all the pinching and saving which
had gone to provide for the son’s education, he resolved to
apprentice him to a tailor or shoemaker in hopes of obtaining a better
return for his outlay. Fortunately a friend intervened, and gave the
boy board and lodging, besides private tuition, while he finished his
gymnasium course. His work as a student seems to have failed to
satisfy his instructors, for when he proceeded to the University of
Lund it was with the enigmatic testimonial to the effect that “some
shrubs in a garden may disappoint the cares of the gardener, but if
transplanted into different soil may prosper.”
When barely twenty-two he left Lund for Upsala, taking with him
his entire fortune of £8, and, being inexperienced and unknown,
soon found himself in desperate straits. He was rescued by the
generosity of Dr. Celsius, a professor of theology, but student of
botany, who, impressed with Karl’s collections and enthusiasm,
offered him board and lodging, and obtained for him some private
pupils. The hardships of his life were not yet over, but gradually his
work obtained recognition, abroad sooner than at home, and he
could have lived at his ease in England or the Netherlands; only (as
he expressed it), “his Sara was in Sweden,” and he returned to his
native land to scrape together sufficient means to marry her.
Buffon.
From the beginning Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, was
marked out for a different life. His father was a Burgundian
Councillor, and his mother, besides being an heiress, was a woman
of unusual ability. He was originally destined for the law, but his
tastes always inclined towards science, and he soon found occasion
to follow them.
He made the acquaintance of a young Englishman of rank and of
his tutor, who was a man of science, and with them he travelled on
the continent. About the same time Linnæus was also travelling, but
in a different fashion. He set out to make explorations in Lapland,
then very little known, carrying his luggage on his back, and covered
nearly 5,000 miles at a cost of about £25. During his travels he kept
a diary[13] of his observations, which contains not only botanical but
also ethnological information of great value.
13. See Globus, “Linné als Ethnologe,” xci., 1907.
While Linnæus was living from hand to mouth, depending for his
food on chance generosity, and mending his boots with folded paper,
Buffon was living the gay life of the young men of his age and rank,
and we hear of him being forced to flee to Paris to escape the results
of wounding an Englishman in a gaming quarrel. (Linnæus was also
guilty of drawing his sword in anger, but the provocation was
different. During his absence from Upsala a rival had, by private
influence, contrived to get a prohibition put on all private lecturing in
the University, and he returned to find all his means of livelihood
suddenly cut off.)
Nevertheless Buffon’s life of pleasure did not occupy all his
energies. He possessed, as Voltaire said, “l’âme d’un sage dans le
corps d’un athlête,” and while in Paris he wrote and translated
various scientific works, was elected a member of the Academy of
Science, and in 1739 was appointed keeper of the Jardin du Roi and
of the Royal Museum.
The permanent value to Anthropology of the work of these two
men lies in the fact that they both “saw life steadily, and saw it
whole.” But they produced results not only distinct, but, in some
respects, antagonistic. Buffon, as Topinard says, did not classify, he