THE EARLY MALAYS AND THEIR 

 NEIGHBOURS* 



A Brief Survey of Primitive Cultural Influences Affecting the 



Filipinos . 



(With an Incidental Revieiv of the Philippine 



Academy's Work). 



CHARLES SUMNER LOBINGIER, D.C.L., PH.D., 



Chancellor of the Academy 1909-1914; 

 Now Chancellor Emeritus. 



The Philippine Academy was organized in 1909 and 

 incorporated under the laws of the archipelago in 1910 for 



"the promotion of advanced research in subjects pertaining 

 to Filipinology, to effect a union of scholars and investigators 

 interested therein, to aid in the establishment of a complete and 

 consolidated Library of 'Filipiniana,' to encourage the prepara- 

 tion and publication of scientific treatises thereon, to provide 

 uniform standards and devise improved methods in conducting 

 such investigations and to co-operate with scientific organizations 

 elsewhere." 1 



From the first it was fortunate in attracting to its ranks 

 the leading investigators along the lines mentioned and their 

 work, now representing an accumulation of more than a 

 decade (for as individuals many of them had been working 

 before the Academy was formed), affords a valuable nucleus 

 of material relating to the ethnology and history of the 

 Philippines. This is especially true of the Pre-Spanish 

 period, for there the Philippine Academicians were among 

 the pioneers. 



Beginning with the contributions of Dr. N. M. Saleeby 2 

 on the history and culture of the Moros of the south, a 



*Kead before the Society. 



1 Extract from the Articles of Incorporation. 



2 Studies in Moro History, Law and Eeligion (Manila, 1905) ; The 

 History of Sulu (1905) Origin of the Malayan Filipinos, Philippine 

 Academy Publications, Vol. I, No. 1 (1912). 



