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in the Hawaiian Islands of special helmets and other garments 

 characteristic of Tibetan Lamas — though, in the nature of the 

 case, not constructed of the same materials in the two cases. 



This number of the Journal also contains the Presidential 

 Address of Sir Everard F. im Thurn, which was entitled, " On 

 the Thoughts of South Sea Islanders." The address is very- 

 short, but contains some interesting comments on the friendli- 

 ness of South Sea cannibals in the very early days of their 

 contact with Europeans. 



The following articles may also be noted : 



In J.R. Anth. Inst., vol. li : " The Older Palaeolithic Age 

 in Egypt," by Dr. C. G. Seligman ; " Excavations at the Stone- 

 axe Factory of Graig-lwyd, Penmaenmawr," by S. H. Warren ; 

 and " Some Early British Remains from a Mendip Cave," by 

 Dr. L. S. Palmer. 



In Annals of Archceol. and AnthropoL, vol. viii (University 

 of Liverpool) : " Oxford Excavations in Nubia," by F. L. 

 Griffith ; and " Ancient Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean," 

 by H. A. Ormerod. 



And in Man : " The Hybrid Origin of the Mediterraneans," 

 by Prof. V. Giuffrida-Ruggeri (December 192 1) ; "A New 

 Find in Palaeolithic Cave Art," by M. C. Burkitt (December 

 1 921) ; and " The Ice-Age and Man," by H. J. E. Peake 

 (January 1922). 



MEDICINE. By R. M. Wilson. M.B.. Ch.B. 



The first volume of the reports of the St. Andrews Institute 

 for Clinical Research, which was founded two years ago by 

 Sir James Mackenzie, is of great interest. It reveals the 

 general practitioner of medicine as a research worker of great 

 acumen, and also shows how important to the study of both 

 health and disease are the observations gleaned by a trained 

 clinician at the bed-side. 



Perhaps the most considerable contribution in the volume 

 is that dealing with symptoms as modifications of ordinary 

 reflexes. A great deal of misapprehension seems to have 

 sprung up in regard to this matter, and therefore the paper 

 by Dr. Hering, Professor of Physiology at St. Andrews Univer- 

 sity, in which the reflex theory of symptoms is described and 

 discussed, is very weLome. 



Dr. Hering points out that the St. Andrews view differs 

 from that in common currency owing to its inclusion of sensa- 

 tions among reflex phenomena. Voluntary muscular action, 

 he indicates, becomes, when regarded in this fashion, a reflex 

 to some stimulus which has called it forth, and consequently 



