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R. W. Shufeldt: Zoological statuary at the National Capital. Dr, 

 Shufeldt, after relating his experiences with the sculptor, John Rodgers. 

 in 1872, and with others in the studios of New York City forty years 

 thereafter, pointed out how generally it was the case everywhere that 

 sculptors ignored the teachings of biologists, carrying their idealism 

 to * such an extreme that many of the elaborate pieces, intended as 

 ornaments in places of prominence in cities, were untrue to nature, 

 highly rediculous in conception, as well as in execution. This rule 

 applied to a large part of the sculptural pieces in the City of Washing- 

 ton, and to this there were but too few exceptions. Among these 

 latter were the tigers and buffaloes of Mr. Proctor. Through the use 

 of his lantern slides Dr. Shufeldt illustrated his remarks and criticisms 

 of a considerables number of the pieces of animal sculpture about 

 the city. Exception was taken to the employment of nonindigenous 

 animals as American models for such purposes, and especial objection 

 was made to the lion, which, the speaker said, should be supplanted 

 bp our own native forms, as the elk, moose, cougar, and other types. 



Dr. Shufeldt's communication was discussed by Messrs. L. 0. How- 

 ard, H. E. Ames, W. P. Hay, J. W. Gidley, G. W. Baird, and others. 



M. W. Lyon, Jr., Recording Secretary. 



THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 509th meeting of the Society was held in the Lecture Hall of 

 the Public Library on March 19, 1917. On this occasion Dr. Fay- 

 Cooper Cole, of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 

 delivered a lecture before the society on The pagan tribes of the 

 Philippines. 



He first took up the peopling of the Islands and the intermingling 

 of peoples which has resulted in the present population. The pigmy 

 blacks or Negritos were held to be the aboriginal inhabitants of the 

 islands. They were driven back from the coasts, and finally to a 

 few isolated regions by the pressure of invaders, most of whom came 

 in from the south. Many of the pigmies were enslaved or otherwise 

 merged with newcomers and, as a result, traces of this intermixture 

 are now to be seen in every tribe of the Philippines. 



The invading peoples are believed to have come in several waves, 

 not as a part of a great single movement. The earliest of these waves 

 appears to have been made up of a people who were physically closely 

 lalied to the Polynesians. They were followed by successive invasions 

 of primitive Malays — a people with closer affinities to the Mongoloid 

 people of Southern Indo-China and the earlier inhabitants of Burma. 

 These early inhabitants appear to have intermarried to a great extent, 

 and later to have mixed with newcomers so that today the population 

 is of a veiy complex nature. Dr. Cole showed a number of slides of 

 members of the Bukidnon tribe of Central Mindanao. In this group 

 three types continually appear — oftentimes in the same family. The 

 first type has distinct negroid features showing the admixture of Ne- 

 grito blood; the second closely approximates the Christianized Visayan 

 of the Coast; while the third element is made up of people who in 

 all but color closely resemble Caucasians. 



