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article does not deal with the existing races of Polynesia, but 

 with fossil types, and we are interested to see that the author 

 thinks that the American Indians did not reach their continent 

 until the close — or at least the decline — of the last great glacia- 

 tion. It is, of course, generally believed that they entered vid 

 the Bering Strait. The immigrants presumably found the 

 Western Hemisphere uninhabited, and the virgin prairies must 

 indeed have been happy hunting grounds. If it be true that 

 the arrival of the Red Men was as recent as Mr. MacCurdy 

 believes, the peopling of the Americas must have taken place 

 contemporaneously with the end of the Old Stone Age and 

 beginning of the New Stone Age in Europe. Mr. Charles 

 Peabody contributes an article on Prehistoric Palestine and 

 Syria, and W. D. Wallis, of the California University, writes a 

 learned discourse on " Individual Initiative and Social Com- 

 pulsion," in which, amongst other matters believed to be 

 psychologically cognate, the phenomenon of " messiahs " in 

 North American and other savage tribes is discussed. Mr. 

 Earl H. Morris, of Oklahoma University, describes some 

 original investigations in a paper entitled " The Excavation of 

 a Ruin near Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico." The 

 book reviews published in the American Anthropologist are of 

 the nature of what in Science Progress are called " Essay- 

 Reviews." Thus A. A. Goldenweiser contributes what is in reality 

 a fairly long article around the subject of Emile Durkheim's 

 book, Les Formes Elementaires de la vie Religieuse : Le Systeme 

 Totemique en Australie. Amongst the other books reviewed in 

 this manner is Hose and McDougall's Pagan Tribes of Borneo. 



It is notorious that science in general does not receive 

 adequate recognition in the British Empire, and this is un- 

 fortunately true of anthropology in particular, but it is satis- 

 factory to be able to record that in respect of anthropology 

 Canada is less backward than other parts of the Empire, 

 possibly owing to the educative influence of the great republic : 

 for in anthropology (though not I believe in most sciences) 

 America is ahead of England. In the April number of Man 

 there is a contribution by A. C. Breton describing recent 

 anthropological work in Canada, and having regard to the fact 

 that the Canadians are a small nation, one is impressed with the 

 large amount of work which is being done. The article includes 

 a summary of the important recent work on the Eskimos. In 



