ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES

THREE NOTEWORTHY Publications of The Folk-Lore Society are now published by William Glaisher, Ltd., 265 High Holborn, London, W.C.I. These are Basil Hall Chamberlain's "Aino Folk-Tales," 1888; Walter Jekyll's "Jamaican Song and Story"; and Ann Callaway's "Religious System of the Amazulu," 1870.

THE RUSSIAN INFORMATION BUREAU announces that institutions, organizations or individuals who are interested in exchanging their scientific publications or periodicals for similar works produced by the scientists of the Soviet Union may make arrangements to do so by applying to its headquarters at 2819 Connecticut Avenue N. W., Washington, D. C. This Bureau represents the Joint Information Bureau of Moscow which because of its continuous communications with scientific and cultural institutions of the Union of Soviet Republics is able to arrange for the exchange of their publications for those of other countries and to establish permanent contacts mutually beneficious to those concerned.

KNUD RASMUSSEN, the Danish explorer, has been awarded the Charles P. Daly Gold Medal of the American Geographical Society for 1924, for his explorations in Greenland and northern North America.

THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY announces the following anthropological and archaeological expeditions for the year 1925:

The museum has commissioned Dr. A. L. Kroeber to collect archeological material in Peru and Bolivia. Dr. Kroeber's initial researches will most likely beat Tiahuauaco, on Lake Titicaca, high in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia. Although the Spaniards found the Incas ruling this territory, it has since been agreed that their dynasty was a comparatively young one, probably originating in the fourteenth century. Incomplete investigations made by various institutions have disclosed much that is mythical regarding the preIncas races. Sufficient material evidence has been discovered, however, to prove that civilizations existed as long ago as 1,400 years before the Incas.

The archeological expedition in Mesopotamia, conducted jointly by the Field Museum and Oxford University, under the leadership of Professor Stephen Langdon, during the past two years, will continue its operations through the present year. Important discoveries are expected to come from where excavations have gained great headway. The oldest pictorial writings have been unearthed from a palace believed to have been that of the first kings of Babylon. The excavators are now working into some of the more important burial places, temples and fortresses that are expected to yield material of vast importance in reconstructing the story of pre-Semitic and prehistoric Sumerian races.

Madagascar has been selected as the field for an ethnological survey, under the leadership of Dr. Ralph Linton. This is a most promising region for ethnological research. The inhabitants are of cosmopolitan lineage and many of the tribes are closely allied with the Malayan groups farther to the east. The island contains twentysix different groups of people, which are sub-divided into a greater number of tribes. The southern tribes are almost unknown. They are believed to be descendants of people who ruled the island before the Hovas, the present so-called ruling class. The Hovas apparently came originally from Sumatra. Some of the other tribes are of the Mongolian type. Still others claim to be descendants of the Arabs. The expedition will attempt to make contributions to the early history of the migrations of the Malayan group.

An expedition to southern California, under the leadership of Charles L. Owen, will be financed by the Julius and Augusta N. Rosenwald Fund. Complete data concerning the Hupa, Yurok, Cahuilla and Chemehuevi Indian tribes of that region will be sought. -Science.

DR. ALBERT ERNEST JENKS, professor of anthropology, on sabbatic leave from the University of Minnesota, sailed on January 28 to spend the remainder of the year in study and research in Europe. The first half of the year was spent in Washington. Dr. Jenks returns the last of June to join the faculty of the University of California for its Southern Branch summer session in Los Angeles.

-Science.

DR. GEORGE GRANT MACCURDY, of Yale University, was reelected director of the American School of Prehistoric Research in Europe at the annual meeting of the managing committee of the school held in Washington, D. C., on January 3.

THE DEGREE of Professor of Anthropology has been conferred upon Mr. A. Matsumura, of the Imperial University. This is the first title of such a kind ever presented by the Japanese Government.

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the American Anthropological Association recently passed the following resolution:

WHEREAS: The visit of the Secretary of the Interior to the Navajo Reservation, as reported in "Progress in the Handling of Indian Affairs," reveals the distressing fact that out of 8653 Indians examined, 1981, or nearly 23%, were suffering from trachoma, a highly infectious disease frequently leading to blindness, especially in reinfection cases; and

WHEREAS: The health situation in communities of the American Indians throughout the United States is generally unwholesome as a result of the diseases introduced among the aboriginal population by white men, and now constitutes a menace to public health not correctable by ordinary medical and sanitary agencies; therefore be it

Resolved: That the American Anthropological Association approves the efforts of the Secretary of the Interior to apply prompt remedial measures, and further expresses the earnest hope that the campaign be extended, that the cooperative health and welfare organizations of the country be asked to assist in every useful way, and that a special appeal for financial aid be made to foundations and other private sources if the available public funds prove inadequate to meet this crisis; and be it further

Resolved: That copies of this resolution be sent to the Secretary of the Interior, to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Health Council, and such other organizations as may be interested.

AT THE JOINT MEETING of the American Ethnological Society and the Section of Anthropology and Psychology of the New York Academy of Sciences held on March 23, 1925, an informal discussion was held on the topic, "Influence of Early Environment on Personality." The discussion was led by Professor William Ogburn.

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the American Anthropological Association has voted to accept an invitation from the Social Service Research Council to become associated with it. This Council consists of three delegates each from the American Economic Association, The American Sociological Society, and the American Political Science Association.

THE UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG has conferred the degree of Ph.D. honoris causa on Professor Robert Lehmann-Nitsche, Chief of the Anthropological Department of the La Plata Museum and professor of anthropology in the Universities of La Plata and Buenos Aires.

M. L'ABBÉ ROUSSELOT died in Paris on December 16, 1924.

MR. N. C. NELSON of the American Museum of Natural History has recently left for Asia where he is to be archaeologist of the expedition under the leadership of Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews which the American Museum is conducting in Central Asia.