H.—ANTHROPOLOGY. Neel 
tions of funds, most of which come from the United States. I feel some- 
times ashamed that the great British Empire has to go begging to America 
for the few hundreds of pounds with which to carry out a little of that 
work which it is the primary duty of the Empire to undertake if it is ever 
to rule its dependent peoples with justice based on knowledge and 
understanding. 
T find it difficult to understand how it is that the study of native 
peoples of simpler culture receives so little support. There seems to be 
little difficulty in raising very considerable sums of money every year for 
archeological investigations. Yet there is no such urgency about these 
as there is for the immediate study of the living cultures that are being 
destroyed by the encroachment of the white man. However interesting 
these dead cultures may be, we study only their dead remains. We can 
learn very little about their thoughts and feelings, their laws, customs, 
religion, or mythology, such as we still can learn about the natives of Africa 
or New Guinea. At a time, not so long ago, when it would have been 
possible to observe a people such as the Australian aborigines or the 
Bushmen making and using stone implements of paleolithic type, pre- 
_ historians were spending their time speculating as to how the very similar 
Mousterian and Aurignacian implements might have been used. 
A second urgent need at the present time seems to me to be the making 
of further provision for the application of anthropological knowledge to 
the problems of the government and education of native peoples. I do 
not think that anyone would maintain that the provision at present made 
is anything like adequate. 
There has been lately some talk of an Institute of Colonial Studies 
which would be at the same time a centre for research and for making 
the results of that research available for those engaged in administrative 
work. I can only express the hope that before many years it will be 
possible to bring some plan of that kind to completion. 
Meanwhile, in spite of repeated setbacks and disappointments, anthro- 
pology has at last succeeded in winning for itself some place in the world 
of practical affairs, some measure of recognition as a study that can make 
most valuable contributions to problems that are going to be amongst 
the most important with which this century is faced, those that have 
arisen from the mingling of diverse peoples and cultures all over the world. 
The task of the twentieth and succeeding centuries is that of uniting all 
‘the peoples of the world in some sort of ordered community. Attention 
has quite naturally been concentrated on the relations of the great nations. 
But the problems of finding the proper place in a world community for 
the tribes of Africa, Asia and Oceania are possibly not less vital to the 
Successful completion of the task. 
