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that, in the words of Sir Richard Temple, our statesmen must 

 be made to perceive the " administrative value of anthropology." 



The longest and probably the most important article in 

 this issue is a contribution by the Rev. S. S. Dornan on " The 

 Tati Bushmen (Masarwas) and their Language." This seems 

 to me to be one of the most important pieces of anthropological 

 research which has appeared for several years. The term 

 Masarwa is applied to the northern Bushmen by the 

 Bechuanas. They live in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, the 

 Kalahari, the western parts of Southern Rhodesia, and prob- 

 ably extend into German South-West Africa and into Portu- 

 guese West Africa. That there are also Bushmen in the 

 eastern parts of Southern Rhodesia and in Portuguese East 

 Africa is certain, but the author is doubtful whether these are 

 properly described as Masarwas. The particular group of 

 Masarwas to which this paper mainly refers is the group living 

 in the Tati district. The author says : "I do not think 

 there is much doubt that the Pygmies and the Bushmen are 

 closely connected, probably originally the same people, and 

 the differences in colour and habits of life are due simply to 

 difference of habitat, environment, and mode of living, the 

 one being forest dwellers and the other desert inhabitants." 

 Mr. Dornan believes that these Tati people are almost pure 

 Bushmen, having had very little admixture of Bantu or Hotten- 

 tot blood. Many interesting details concerning their ways of 

 life are given. The author dissents entirely from the generally 

 accepted theory of the origin of the Hottentots, namely, that 

 they arose from a wholesale crossing of negroes with Bushwomen. 

 He does not think it possible that negroes, capturing Bush- 

 women and children and keeping them as wives and slaves, 

 would lose their own language and adopt that of the con- 

 quered race. He thinks the reverse would occur. He then 

 gives it as his opinion that " physically and linguistically the 

 Hottentots and Bushmen were one people in the remote past, 

 but they have lived so long apart that the degree of relation- 

 ship, at least in the languages, is very slight." The language, 

 which is studied very fully, is distantly related to Namaqua. 

 No ethnologist should miss this paper. 



Another interesting paper is that by Dr. C. G. Seligman on 

 " The Physical Character of the Arabs." The population of 

 Northern Arabia is, he says, predominantly long-headed, and 



