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Conclusions. 



No attempt should be made to interpret in detail individual 

 character by peculiarities in the form or size of the nose. 

 One of the larger monkeys is known as " the proboscis 

 monkey," on account of the great length of his nose, but it is 

 not supposed that his character differs much from that of his 

 snub-nosed relatives. In man we may often safely infer 

 race or family, and may then cautiously attribute the known 

 character of the race to the individual who possesses the 

 nose. Thus the Roman nose indicates Italian descent, the 

 aquiline nose Semitic descent, and so on. Many other races, 

 or family groups, having noses more or less characteristic 

 might be constructed. Meanwhile the point to be kept in mind 

 is that the nose comes by inheritance and indicates character only so 

 far as it implies racial or family descent. 



REVIEWS. 



The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays. By 

 the late Lieutenant-General A. Lane-Fox, Pitt Rivers. The 

 Clarendon Press, Oxford. 



This book suggests a puzzled feeling of doubt as to whether 

 it is a little behind the age or much ahead of it. It contains 

 but little which will add to the stores of knowledge of the 

 present-day student, whilst at the same time a conviction 

 that the author, on sound lines, is aiming at a kind of accuracy 

 in detail likely to be unattainable for long to come. It is 

 the same with much of Herbert Spencer's writing. Both 

 authors seem to be labouring to convince their readers that 

 much of what has seemed quite obvious to common sense 

 can be put into sound scientific phraseology if only you will 

 take enough trouble. Yet we are very thankful, both to 

 Spencer and General Lane-Fox. They had high aims, and 

 have done good work. Their work has, however, been done, 

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