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menced, and may be expected, when properly entered upon, to reveal 
details of the greatest consequence to American anthropology, for here 
somewhere must lie the remains, cultural and skeletal, of the ancestors 
of those who peopled the American continent.^ 
Comparative Study of Child Growth among Primitive Tribes. It was 
planned to conduct researches in this especially important field among 
the aboriginal Australians, the Negrito, the African Pygmies, the Zulu, 
the Eskimo, and the Chinese; but illness of the available explorers, the 
war in Europe, and other unforeseen conditions interfered with the 
proposed excursions to the Australians, Pygmies, and Chinese. The 
Negrito of the Philippines were studied by P. Newton, demonstrator in 
Anatomy of Georgetown University; and four hundred individuals, in- 
cluding many children, were measured. Particular care was taken to 
reach the full-bloods, which involved some perilous journeys. A series 
of photographs and some interesting skeletal remains were obtained, but 
casting became impossible, the dampness of the climate (the journey 
had to be undertaken partly during the rainy season) being such that no 
plaster could be preserved in dry condition. The Eskimo of St. Law- 
rence Island, Alaska, were examined by Riley D. Moore, aid in the 
Division of Physical Anthropology of the National Museum; 180 indi- 
viduals, including a good proportion of children and adolescents, were 
measured; 30 facial casts and numerous photographs were made; and- 
an important collection of skeletal material was gathered. The data 
secured and the collections from this island are of particular interest, as 
they relate to a group of people intermediary between the American 
and Asiatic Eskimo. Finally, an expedition, occupying fourteen months, 
was made by V. Shuck, an able anthropologist of Prague, to the Zulu, 
the Bushmen, and some British East Africa negroes, resulting in the 
acquirement of facial casts of 24 Zulus and 20 Bushmen, numerous pho- 
tographs and other material, and anthropometric observations on up- 
ward of 800 children and adolescents of known age. The scientific data 
have already been partly utilized in charts for the Exposition, and are 
to be reported on as soon as conditions in Europe permit. They should 
form an excellent basis for eventual comparisons with observations of 
similar nature on the American negro, and also serve, of course, for the 
study of further contrasts or resemblances between the black and the 
white man. Duplicates of all the African measurements are preserved 
in the National Museimi. 
In addition to the above, the first four months of 1913 were spent by 
me on an expedition to Peru, the objects of which were to conduct a 
greatly needed extension of former anthropological explorations in that 
