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first group are primarily engaged in economic biology. The short histo- 

 ries of the development of each of the more important stations form a 

 particularly interesting feature of Doctor Kofoid's book, and one which 

 will be greatly appreciated by his readers. 



Lawrence E. Griffin. 



The Racial Anatomy of the Philippine Islanders. Introducing new methods of 

 anthropology and showing their application to the Filipinos, with a classifica- 

 tion of human ears, and a scheme for the heredity of anatomical characters 

 in man. By Robert Bennett Bean, B. S., M. D. Cloth. Illustrated. Pp. 

 236. Price $2, net. Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 

 1910. 



The author's thesis is admirably set forth in the preface as follows : 



"This book represents studies of the human form rather than the skeleton, 

 and embodies the results of three years' investigation of the Filipinos. A method 

 of segregating types is introduced and affords a ready means of comparing dif- 

 ferent groups of men. The omphalic index is established as a differential factor 

 in racial anatomy, the ear form becomes an index of type, and other means of 

 analyzing random samples of mankind are presented for the first time. The 

 book, therefore, represents a new departure in anthropology, and the term racial 

 anatomy of the living is not inappropriate as a title. Approved methods of the 

 Old World have been utilized, and it is to be hoped that this contribution from 

 the New World will be received with due consideration as a striving after truth. 

 * * * The object of this book is to establish definite types of man that may 

 be recognized by ear form, cephalic index, nasal index, and other factors, that 

 such types may be studied in families through several generations to establish 

 their hereditary characteristics, and this is the author's reason for the present 

 publication." 



The conclusions arrived at may be divided into three very distinct 

 classes : I. Those relating to -methods of physical anthropology ; ^ II. A 

 new classification of the whole human race, based upon the results of 

 the new methods employed; and, III. The classifieation and corelation 

 of the people of the Philippine Islands. 



Class I. Old methods of somatology : The cephalic index has long 

 been held to be the most permanent physical characteristic of man. 

 Doctor Bean throws grave doubt on this assumption, affirming that the 

 manner of sleeping seriously affects the shape of the head. This is parti- 

 cularly true in the Orient where the Chinese sleep on porcelain beds, the 

 lowland Malays on mats laid upon the floors, and the mountain peoples on 

 sleeping-boards of hard wood. However, Doctor Bean uses the cephalic 

 index in his work, as well as the nasal index, facial index, height, reach, 

 and other anthropometric measurements in common use by somatologists. 

 8. New methods of somatology: Two entirely new factors in the deter- 



' It is to be regretted that the author does not use the more precise term 

 "somatology," now in general use by leading anthropologists. 



