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other places. The chief prisoners' camps visited appear to 

 have been those at Eger and Reichenberg, and the report is 

 writted by Prof. R. Poch. The research is not such as admits 

 of being summarised briefly, nor such as leads directly to con- 

 clusions of any general theoretical interest, but consists merely 

 of that detailed spade-work which is the foundation of all 

 scientific progress. 



The journal Man for the first three months of 191 6 consists 

 as usual of miscellaneous scraps of information. This publica- 

 tion is no doubt to be regarded as the chief anthropological 

 magazine in the British Empire, but it cannot be said that it 

 is very worthy of that position. Even from the point of view 

 of the professed anthropologist, Man might without difficulty 

 be made more interesting than it usually is ; but in addition 

 to that, it must be remembered that every science needs the 

 interest and support of a certain proportion of the general 

 educated public, and it is therefore the duty of anthropologists 

 to attempt to inform the ordinary reader of the interest and 

 importance of the science of man. This is a function which 

 such a journal as Man might well perform, but which in fact 

 it makes but little attempt to carry out. The public are not 

 interested in the technical details of any science, nor is it 

 necessary that they should be so. But the wider conclusions 

 and general principles of a science can be made interesting 

 through the medium of semi-popular articles, and there is no 

 better method of obtaining for science more adequate recogni- 

 tion and appreciation. The notorious neglect of science in 

 Britain is partly the fault of British scientists. The January 

 and February numbers of Man contain articles describing 

 some " Excavations in Malta," by T. Ashby, T. Zammit, and 

 G. Despott. 



The April number of that admirable periodical the American 

 Naturalist contains an article by Prof. T. T. Waterman, of the 

 University of California, on the " Evolution of the Chin." The 

 human chin has attracted an extraordinary amount of attention 

 in recent years, and there exists quite a considerable literature 

 on the subject. Prof. Waterman criticises the theory put 

 forward on more than one occasion by Dr. Louis Robinson 

 that the chin prominence has been evolved through the develop- 

 ment of articulate speech, and adopts the hypothesis (which as 

 it happens the present writer advocated in Science Progress 



