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Ronald Hamlyn-Harris, the energetic director of the Brisbane 

 Museum. The same number contains a report of the meetings 

 of the Anthropology Section of the British Association last 

 September, whereat Prof. Elliot Smith, Sir Arthur Evans, 

 and others discussed the highly topical subject of the distri- 

 bution of nationalities in the Balkans. They reached no 

 conclusions that were not already known to persons who had 

 studied the questions, but it is worth recording that according 

 to this (possibly over-rated) principle of nationalities, part of 

 what was in September Serbian Macedonia ought to go to 

 Bulgaria, whilst on the other hand Bosnia, Herzegovina, 

 Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Carniola, together with most 

 of Istria and other minor districts, are overwhelmingly Jugo- 

 slav. The Italian claims to Dalmatia were dismissed as 

 worthless, but the importance of the differences of religious 

 culture among the Jugo-Slavs themselves does not appear to 

 have been sufficiently emphasised. 



Even enthusiasts have now had nearly enough of the dis- 

 cussion on the Piltdown discovery, but a paper by an American 

 scholar must be noticed. This is entitled " The Jaw of the 

 Piltdown Man," and will be found in the Smithsonian Mis- 

 cellaneous Collections (vol. lxv. No. 12), and is by Gerrit 

 S. Miller. The author holds (with Prof. Waterston) that the 

 jaw and skull do not belong to one another, and that the jaw 

 is that of a chimpanzee. The case for the dissociation of the 

 cranium from the mandible and canine tooth could hardly 

 be better stated than it is in this paper, and nobody can 

 reasonably deny that some doubt exists. There is not space 

 to discuss the matter adequately here, but I may mention 

 that Mr. Miller decides to establish a new species of chimpanzee, 

 Pan vetus, based on the jaw, and is apparently content to 

 leave the skull with the name Eoanthropus dawsoni, although 

 the cranium without the jaw would certainly not be entitled 

 to generic distinction from Homo. 



