SCIENCE 



Friday, December 17, 1920 



CONTENTS 



The Anthropological Problems of the Far 

 East: Dr. Ales Hrdlicka 567 



purveying from the Air: De. E. Lester 

 Jones 574 



Scientific Events: 



The British National Union of Scientific 

 Workers; Plant Pathology at the BrooMyn 

 Botanical Garden; The American Physical 

 Society; The Mathematical Association of 

 America 576 



Scientific Notes and News 578 



University and Educational News 581 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Helium and Hydrogen Models: Dr. Edwin 

 C. Kemble. Meprints from Scientific Insti- 

 tutions: Priscilla B. Montgomery. Obsei-- 

 vations on the Philosophy and Ethics of Be- 

 search and Publication: Frank Place, Jr. 



I The Directorship of the Maine Agricultural 

 Station: Dr. Chas. D. Woods 581 



Quotations : — 

 Science and the Nation 585 



Scientific Books: — 

 Howchin on the Geology of Souih Australia: 

 Professor Eollin D. Salisbury 586 



Special Articles: — 



The Compression of a Sound Wave: Pro- 

 fessor Carl Bakus 586 



The American Chemical Society: Dr. Chas. 

 L. Parsons 588 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROBLEMS 

 OF THE FAR EASTi 



The white man is quite liable to forget that 

 the Tar East is a very great part of the world ; 

 that it is, in fact, a more populous and greater 

 world than his, and one which has perhaps 

 quite as many and important problems of its 

 own. But it is difficult to realize these things 

 unless the student actually visits the Far 

 East, and by Ear East I mean the entire 

 eastern half or rather two thirds of the Asiatic 

 continent with the adjacent oceans. Once you 

 enter these territories you are in a vast hu- 

 man beehive; you see on all sides of you peo- 

 ples of interest; peoples who must have their 

 history, their antiquity; peoples who must 

 have many problems the solution of which is 

 connected with and would be of value to the 

 rest of the world. Wlien, as an anthropolo- 

 gist, you have been in these regions for a 

 length of time, you begin to see a light, very 

 dim at first, which shows you these problems, 

 so far as our own field is concerned, are di- 

 visible into two large classes : into the more 

 comprehensive ones, which involve very large 

 groups of humanity and the large questions, 

 and into the more particular prohlems, which 

 are proper to the different individual ethnic 

 groups that occupy those territories. 



I shall speak first of all of some of the 

 more individual problems, but it may as well 

 be stated at once that with these or the larger 

 problems I shall not be able to do more than 

 to present mere outlines for your contempla- 

 tion; more thorough definitions and the an- 

 swers to the problems are matters for the 

 future. 



It will be handiest to take up the particular 

 questions geographically, and begin with the 

 north or rather the northeast. And here we 



1 Lecture delivered before the 548th meeting of 

 the Anthropological Society of Washington, Oc- 

 tober 19, 1920. 



