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application of knowledge must be indicated 

 and directed. That perhaps brings us nearer 

 to what may yet be the distinctive feature of 

 our University. At all events we start with 

 the belief that here we are going to combine 

 theory with practice, and to see that in our 

 University we shall combine both in one course 

 of instruction, with due regard to the needs of 

 our own time and of our own district. And 

 now, if I may summarize in one sentence what 

 I have been saying, it is that a university 

 should be a place where knowledge is taught, 

 tested, increased and applied. 



PROFESSOR STARR'S RECENT WORK IN 

 3IEXIC0. 



With his last journey to Mexico, which 

 extended over four months. Professor Fred- 

 erick Starr brings the field-work of four 

 years' study of Mexican Indians to a close. 

 This study has had for its object the careful 

 definition of the physical types of the tribes 

 of southern Mexico. Three kinds of work were 

 done — measurement, photography and model- 

 ing. In each tribe one hundred men and 

 twenty-five women were measured, fourteen 

 measurements being taken of each individual. 

 Photographic portraits were taken of typical 

 subjects, a front view and a straight profile being 

 made of each. Busts in plaster were made of 

 those who appeared most perfectly to present 

 the racial type, the molds being made directly 

 upon the subject. During the four seasons over 

 which bis work has extended Professor Starr 

 has visited the following twenty-three tribes : 

 Otomis, Tarascans, Thaxcalans, Aztecs, Mix- 

 tecs, Triquis, Zapotec-Mixtecs, Mixes, Te- 

 huantepec Zapotecs, Juaves, Chontals, Cui- 

 catecs, Chinantecs, Chochos, Mazatecs, Tepe- 

 huas, Totonacs, Huaxtecs, Mayas, Zoques, 

 Tzendals, Tzotzils and Chols. While the 

 physical types of the natives formed the 

 chief subject of study, many views were 

 also taken of the scenery, villages, houses, 

 groups of Indians, native - industries, etc., 

 etc. The material results of the investiga- 

 tion include measurements from 2,850 per- 

 sons, 1,200 or more negatives, varying in size 

 from 8 X 10 inches to 4x5, 100 busts in plaster, 

 and a large collection of objects — dress, weap- 



ons, implements and products — illustrating the 

 ethnography of the region. Several months 

 will be necessary for putting all this material 

 into shape for exhibition and publication. The 

 printed results of the study will comprise five 

 volumes. Of these, two will be albums of 

 plates, illustrating the people and the country, 

 under the title ' The Indians of Southern Mex- 

 ico,' two will be pamphlets, printed by the 

 Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, en- 

 titled ' Notes on the Ethnography of Southern 

 Mexico,' the fifth will probably be issued as a 

 bulletin of the Department of Anthropology by 

 the University of Chicago, and will present the 

 results of the anthropological measurements 

 and observations under the name of ' The Physi- 

 cal Characters of the Indians of Southern 

 Mexico.' The first volume of the ' Indians of 

 Southern Mexico, ' and part first of the ' Notes 

 on the Ethnography of Southern Mexico ' have 

 already been published. The remaining three 

 volumes will be printed as soon as possible. It 

 may be added that this work of Professor Starr 

 is the first of its kind undertaken in Mexico. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. Patrick Manson, F.R.S., has been 

 awarded the Stewart prize of the British Med- 

 ical Association, for his researches in the pa- 

 thology of tropical diseases, especially in regard 

 to the malaria of man and to the life-history of 

 the malarial parasite both in man and in the 

 mosquito, and in recognition also of the stimu- 

 lating influence which he has exerted for many 

 years on the study of tropical diseases in the 

 British Empire. 



Professor Koch was entertained at dinner 

 on July 24, by the Royal Institute of Public 

 Health and was presented with the Harben 

 medal for 1901. The presentation was made 

 by Dr. W. R. Smith, president of the Institute, 

 who was in the chair. 



The British Medical Journal states that among 

 the honors to be paid to Professor Rudolf Yir- 

 chow on the occasion of his eightieth birthday 

 will be the foundation of a Virchoiv Haus, at 

 Berlin, with objects similar to those of the 

 Hofmann Haus, which serves as a club house,. 

 library, etc., for chemists. 



