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of Japanese children, while the Tokyo Dental College, through the 

 good offices of Professor Mitsuru Okada, contributed several hun- 

 dreds of portraits of its students. 



China, for the anthropologist and archeologist, is one vast open 

 museum, in which something of absorbing interest is met with at 

 almost every step. In addition the people, and particularly the students 

 in colleges, impress one with their native abilities. China in the 

 future may well be relied upon to give the world many a philosopher 

 and scholar of distinction. 



l"i(.. 81. — Mounds near a Korean village. At sunrise on special days it is 

 not unusual to find before each mound a prostrate figure in devotion before 

 the grave of a father or mother. 



The .stay at Peking was principally devoted to assisting in the de- 

 velopment of the medico-anthropological work at the Union Medical 

 College, and the organization of the "Anatomical and Anthropological 

 Association of China." The college has an excellent stafif of well- 

 trained young workers such as Drs. Cowdry, Black, Howard, and 

 others, the majoritv of whom are seriously interested in those branches 

 of anthropology which are nearest the medical sciences ; and there are 

 bright prospects for anthropological work in other parts of China, 

 due to the presence there of Knglish-speaking (mostly American) 



