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Partnerships and Parasitism; Progress and Degeneration. The 

 Twenty-sixth course for the Autumn term was by Dr. A. C. 

 Haddon, F.R.S.: Why and How we study Mankind. The rea- 

 sons for studying our Fellow Men ; Observations on the Living ; 

 The Study of Skulls and Bones ; Psychological Investigations and 

 Sociological Methods ; The Investigation of Ideas and Ideals : 

 The Distribution of Arts and Crafts ; The Methods of Archaeology ; 

 The Teachings of Folklore ; The Decorative Art of British New 

 Guinea — A Study in Method. 



The course of popular lectures for the Winter term, Saturday 

 afternoons, was by varions lecturers on the following subjects : 

 Animals in Primitive Art; Coal, what it is and what it yields; 

 Japanese Architecture and Garden Craft ; The Structure and Uses 

 of Hair; The Educational Value of Children's Toys; Plant Hy- 

 brids ; Native Life in Central Africa ; The Structure and Uses of 

 Teeth; The Origin and History of Bells: The Plant Life of a 

 Pond. Surely the teachers in this neighborhood are favored, and 

 not less are the children and older learners. 



There is an element of bitter disappointment in such a journey 

 as ours, that the volumes we were continually opening and read- 

 ing as it were the title page and perhaps the table of contents 

 must be relinquished for others awaiting the same brief notice as 

 we hurry on. In both public and private museums of Great 

 Britain we might have spent most of our allotted time in study, 

 although as we passed on to the continent we found perhaps more 

 modern buildings and better instalment ; with no more material 

 I am inclined to think the material at hand was better treated, 

 especially in the ethnological side in, say the new museums of 

 Germany, and the United States. Be this as it may, I am certain 

 that I found more suggestions in the housing of specimens in 

 Cologne, Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main, etc., than in England. 

 We regretted to leave unvisited many of the smaller museums in 

 various cities and towns throughout Great Britain. 



On May 27th we left Harwich at 10 p.m. for the Hook of 

 Holland, arriving at the Hague at 6:30 the next morning. We 

 were joined on the train by a young Dutch friend, Mr. Willem 

 Kast Sypestein, Jr., who has been pursuing his post graduate 

 studies at Delft, and he proved all through our stay in Holland a 



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