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only." The Negritos live in the hill districts, whither they 

 have evidently taken refuge from the more powerful native 

 tribes who arrived more recently in the Philippines. In regard 

 to their occupations, the author says that the Negrito, in his 

 truly natural state, " has no occupation other than hunting 

 game and gathering wild fruit and roots for his subsistence. 

 The men construct shelters and make their bows and arrows." 

 A curious physiological character is the slow rate of reproduction 

 observed. In ninety-three families from which particulars were 

 collected, the average number of children was only 2*27. 



Turning to a different subject, I may mention that in Man 

 for July 1920, E. G. Fenton returns to the subject of the alleged 

 ancient " cart-ruts " of Malta, about which there was a con- 

 siderable controversy in 191 8, and to which reference was made 

 in Science Progress. Two photographs of these ruts are 

 published in Man. 



The now familiar eugenic argument relating to the racial 

 desirability of the upper classes has been reiterated recently by 

 more than one writer, notably by Wilham McDougall in An- 

 thropology and History (H. Milford), which was the Twenty- 

 Second Robert Boyle Lecture, delivered at Oxford in June ; 

 and also by Warren S. Thompson, in " Race Suicide in the 

 United States," an article in the above-mentioned number of 

 the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. The former 

 article is written with force and originality, but the latter is, for 

 the most part, singularly trite. 



The following articles on physical anthropology may be 

 mentioned : 



In the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. iii, No. i : " The 

 Indian Brain " [i.e. American Indian), by J. J. Keegan ; "A New Cranio- 

 metric Method, including a Description of a Specially Designed Indexometer 

 for Estimating it," by John Cameron ; " Aspects of the Skull ; how shall 

 they be Represented ? " by G. G. Maccurdy ; and " Multiple Births among 

 the Chinese," by B. Laufer. And in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological 

 Institute, vol. xUx (July to December 1919) : " Some Observations on the 

 Physical Characters of the Mende Nation " (Sierra Leone), by F. W. H. 

 Migeod. 



And the following articles on social anthropology may be 

 mentioned : 



In the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. xlix (July to 

 December 1919) : " Some Personal Experiences in British New Guinea," by 

 Dr. W. M. Strong ; " Stone-work and Gold-fields in British New Guinea," by 

 E. W. P. Chinnery ; " String Figures from New Caledonia and the Loyalty 

 Islands," by R. H. Compton ; and " The Languages of Northern Papua," 

 by S. H. Ray. And in Man : " The Stoney Indians," by A. C. Breton (May) ; 

 and " The Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa," by Sir James 

 G. Frazer. 



