NOVEKBEB 26, 1900] 



SCIENCE 



759 



They are skilful in picking out young men at 

 small salaries and letting them grow old in the 

 enjoyment "of them, but not so great in cre- 

 ating for the best of them the environment 

 most advantageous for their individual de- 

 velopment and their productivity for science 

 and human betterment. They utilize talent 

 instead of fostering genius, for which they too 

 often provide an early death that can hardly 

 be termed euthanasia. 



The institutional exploitation of genius has 

 been tried long and on a large scale, and it is 

 clearly not a success. Let us give the endow- 

 ment of the individual as long and as exten- 

 sive a trial and see what the results will be. 

 Let us have the new university with the new 

 ideals of the value of men of science to edu- 

 cation and to human activities and ideals. 

 Let us institute an academic freedom worthy 

 the name! 



Alexander F. Chamberlain 



Clabk Univebsity, 

 WoBCESTEB, Mass. 



THE KUMBAINCGERI, TURRUBUL, KAIABARA AND 

 ilYCOOLON TRIBES, AUSTRALIA 



In his "Native Tribes of Southeast Au- 

 stralia," Dr. A. W. Hewitt refers to the Kom- 

 baingheri tribe (my Kumbainggeri) on the 

 Bellinger River, on the east coast of New 

 South Wales, and after mentioning their four 

 intermarrying divisions, says: 



It is not possible to say how these four sub- 

 classes (my sections) are placed in pairs repre- 

 senting the two moieties of the tribe, without 

 which knowledge it can not be said whether 

 descent is in the male or the female line.' 



Moreover, he places the Kumbainggeri 

 amongst others under a general heading of 

 " Tribes with male descent." 



Li 1897' and again in 1900' I published a 

 table of the four intermarrying sections of 

 the Kumbainggeri tribe, showing how the sec- 

 tions are divided into two phratries or cycles, 

 and supplying lists of totems belonging to 

 each cycle. I stated that " the rules of 



» Op. cit., pp. 105 and 269. 



'Journ. Roy. Hoc. N. 8. Wales, XXXI., pp. 

 169-70. 



'Queensland Geographical Journal, XVI., p. 41. 



marriage and descent are precisely the same as 

 in the Kamilaroi tribe." I also pointed out 

 that whether a woman of the Womboong sec- 

 tion marries a Kurpoong or Marroong hus- 

 band, her offspring is always Wirroong. Mr. 

 Edward Palmer had previously, in 1883, re- 

 ported the four divisions of the Kumbainggeri, 

 but he did not show their classification into 

 phratries or cycles.* 



The following is a copy of my table above 

 referred to: 



There are feminine forms of these names, 

 which appear in my table of 1897 and 1900, 

 but they are omitted in the present table, for 

 the sake of simplicity. It was stated in my 

 former papers that Kurpoong corresponds to 

 Murri, Marroong to Kubbi, Wirroong to 

 Ippai, and Womboong to Kumbo, of the 

 Kamilaroi divisions. 



In 1898 I published a detailed account of 

 the Burbung ceremony of initiation practised 

 by the Kumbainggeri tribe with a compre- 

 hensive map of their territory.' In 1900 I 

 also described a preliminary form of initiation 

 used by the same tribe, known as the Mur- 

 rawin ceremony.' In 1903 I published a 

 grammar and vocabulary of the Kumbainggeri 

 language.' 



Having therefore been personally engaged 

 in investigations among the Kumbainggeri 

 tribe for a number of years, I am unwilling 

 that Dr. Hewitt's assertion that the line of 

 descent can net be given, should go forth un- 

 contradicted, especially as my works already 

 quoted have made it indisputably clear that 



• Journ. Anthrop. Inst., London, XIII., p. 304. 



• Proc. Amer. Philos. Boo., Phila., XXXVII., pp. 

 54-73, map. 



• Queensland Geographical Journal, XVI., pp. 

 3.5-40. 



^ ilitteil. d. Anthrop. OeselUoh. in Wien, 

 XXXIII., pp. 321-.328. 



