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Ftow. the viewpoint of a morpholo^st : Dr. E. A. 

 Harper. 



From the viewpoint of a bacteriologist and physio- 

 logist : Dr. Guilford B. Reed. 



From the viewpoint of a pathologist: Dr. E. C. 

 Stakman. 



The address of the retiring vice-president 

 will be thirty minutes in length, and each 

 speaker in the symposium has agreed to limit 

 his paper to fifteen minutes. This should 

 allow considerable time for discussion. 



Egbert B. "Wylie, 



Becrehary 



THE TWENTIETH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 

 OF AMERICANISTS 



The Twentieth International Congress of 

 Americanists, which was to be held in Eio de 

 Janeiro in 1921 but had to be postponed, will 

 be held definitely from August 20 to 30, 1922, 

 in connection with the celebration by Brazil 

 of its first century of independence. 



The organizing committee of the congress 

 announces a rich and attractive program, 

 and in view of the importance of Brazil to 

 American Anthropology it is hoped that a 

 special effort will be made by Americanists 

 in this country to attend the congress, or at 

 least to become members. Application for 

 membership, with the dues of $5, may be sent 

 directly to the Secretary of the coming Con- 

 gress, Sr. Domingos Sergio de Carvalho, 

 Praga 15 de Novembro If. 101, Rio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil; or to the writer. 



Ales Hrdlicka 

 Sec. Gen. XlXth I. 0. A. 



TJ. S. National Museum, 

 December 3, 1921 



FOSSIL MAN FROM RHODESIA 



The British press has just announced the 

 discovery of a fossil human skull from north- 

 ern Bhodesia that may prove to be epoch- 

 making. It was found in the " Bone Cave " 

 at Broken Hill mine, and bids fair to be of 

 the first importance in its bearing on the 

 physical characters of fossil man. The 

 cranium is practically complete and in a 

 perfect state of preservation; the lower jaw 



was not recovered. Judging from the news- 

 paper half-tones, tie cranium is of a more 

 lowly type than any Neandertal cranium yet 

 discovered; it remains to be seen after a full 

 report has been published whether we may 

 not have here a new species of Homo about 

 midway between Pithecanthropus erectus and 

 the Homo neandertalensis. 



The face is intact; the prognathism of the 

 upper jaw is extremely accentuated, this 

 being possible partly because of the unusual 

 maxillary height between the anterior nasal 

 spine and the alveolar margin. The nasal 

 bridge is fairly prominent, a character which 

 has recently come to be recognized as be- 

 longing to the Neandertal race. 



The brow ridges are more pronounced than 

 in any other known fossil human skull. The 

 cranial height and breadth are correspond- 

 ingly small, pointing to a comparatively low 

 cranial capacity. 



This precious relic is at the British Mu- 

 seum, South Kensington. It will be ex- 

 amined by Dr. A. Smith Woodward and Pro- 

 fessors Arthur Keith and Elliott Smith, to 

 whom science is so much indebted for their 

 reports on the Piltdown remains; the result 

 of their study of the cranium from the cave 

 at Broken Hill mine will be awaited with 

 intense interest. If the efforts to find the 

 lower jaw should be rewarded, they may re- 

 sult in throwing new light on the Piltdovsoi 



George Grant MacCuedy 

 Director, American School in France 

 FOR Prehistoric Studies 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 



Physiology and Biochemistry in Modem 

 Medicine. By J. J. R. Macleod. 3d edi- 

 tion. St. Louis, C. V. Mosby Co., 1920. 

 Price $10. 



The third edition of this interesting text- 

 book has been largely revised and partly re- 

 written. The changes are uniformly im- 

 provements, and the whole book is well 

 written and filled with important methods 

 and facts which are interestingly discussed. 

 Dr. Macleod describes the advances in the 



