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higher than that of the tribes found in occupation at the begin- 
ning of the Nineteenth Century.’’ 
All of these museums are distinctly creditable institutions and 
all have an out-put of research results which is above the average, 
it seems to me, of museums of similar size and resources in the 
United States. 
Dr. Chilton, Rector of Canterbury College, took me through the 
buildings of that institution which reminded me of those at Ox- 
ford, though on a much smaller scale. The laboratories are well 
equipped and Dr. Chilton’s own collection of Crustacea is quite 
extensive, for he is an acknowledged authority in certain groups. 
I found that college work, even that of the registrar, was sus- 
pended every afternoon during race week, thus I did not meet 
many of the professors. The whole establishment is distinctly 
English in the best traditional sense of the word, and the atmos- 
phere is that of cultural rather than vocational training. 
The students are as healthy and manly a set of young boys as 
one would see anywhere. Over the level Canterbury Plains, re- 
sembling our own western prairies, many of the boys rode bicycles 
to and from the college, which again reminds one of English 
universities; but their bare knees and heads in the cold winter 
weather certainly gave one the shivers although custom has doubt- 
less hardened them to the exposure. They gave the impression 
that the Colonials are keeping up the good old stock in a most 
satisfactory manner. I saw remarkably little evidence of anemic 
conditions and was particularly impressed by the fact that im- 
paired eyesight was rare among them, if absence of glasses was a 
reliable indication. 
The University of New Zealand comprises four University Col- 
leges, each of which specializes in definite fields. The one at 
Dunedin devotes itself to mining, medicine, dental, veterinary 
and domestic science; the one at Christchurch focuses its work on 
engineering and technical science; that at Wellington on law and 
science; while the college at Auckland is concerned mainly with 
commerce and mining. The total registration in the four in- 
stitutions was 4,123 in 1921 and they cost the Government 
£117,434. 
There is also an exceptionally well endowed agricultural college 
at Lincoln as well as industrial schools and schools for the deaf, 
feeble minded and blind. 
The relation of birth-rate to death-rate is always a criterion of 
