Kingdom o : ~ M.n, by E. Ray Lankester (London: 

 X Archibald Constable and Co., 1907) is a collection of 

 three addresses, one of them being the Romanes Lecture 

 for 1905 and another Residential Address at the 



British Association in ; , ,1 collectively they may 



be said to be an earnest pk re generous apprecia- 



tion of the value of scientific . is and achievements by 

 the British public and a m equate endowment of 



research in scientific subject . .e ground that such re- 



search will be of incalculable . to the people of these 



islands. With these aspirations all educated people will most 

 heartily agree, and will join with the Director of the Natural 

 History Museum in urging the need. for such provision as 

 he suggests. But the misfortune is that the majority of per- 

 sons are not educated, or have been educated on a false 

 system of teaching which has excluded from their purview 

 all knowledge of science, its methods and its achievements. 

 The Presidential Address concerns itself with the main 

 conquests made in different branches of science by workers 

 during the past quarter of a century; and those who read it 

 will be able to form some idea not only of what has been 

 done but of what remains to be done, and of what ought at 

 least to be attempted in the interests of humanity. The latter 

 moral is particularly pressed 'home by the third part of the 

 book which contains a most lucid account of the Sleeping 

 Sickness of Uganda, together with the story of the discovery 

 of its cause, one wishes it could also be said of its cure. It 

 is a truly lamentable fact that a country such as this with 

 possessions in every part of the globe should have no properly 

 organized institute where the numerous problems which are 

 constantly arising in connexion with the health of the dif- 

 ferent peoples over whom the British Government rules 

 might be investigated. There is no doubt that it is easier to 

 secure ten thousand pounds for the killing of human beings 

 than one for their salving from disease. 



Two points of criticism we feel bound to make. The 

 writer tells us that the Java skull, the so-called Pithecan- 

 thropus skull, discovered some years ago by M. Dubois, is 

 the most ape-like'human skull yet encountered. We think 



