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The following schedules for the diploma in anthropology by examination 
have been issued by the Cambridge Board of Anthropological Studies :— 
• 
General Anthropology. —The history and methods of anthropology; develop¬ 
ment and degeneration, survival, parallelism, and convergence; the contact and 
fusion of peoples; mental development and human culture; influence of environ¬ 
ment ; the races of man and their distribution, present and past; the chief 
families of languages, their relation to other features of culture and to race ; social 
structure and social function; religion and magic ; relation of morality to custom 
and religion; medicine ; arts and crafts ; aesthetic aspect of human culture ; games 
and play. 
Physical Anthropology. —Elementary human anatomy, with special reference to 
osteology ; a general knowledge of the Primates, and more especially of the Simiidae, 
with a view of their comparison with the Hominidae ; the employment of the somatic 
characters in classifying the varieties of mankind; the osteological characters of 
prehistoric types of mankind; variations and deformations ; the effects of the environ¬ 
ment on man ; the genetics of man ; the senses and mental characters from the racial 
standpoint. 
Archaeology and Technology. — The artifacts of the palaeolithic, neolithic, 
copper, bronze, and early iron ages of Europe, and their various subdivisions, together 
with the associated animal and plant remains ; a general knowledge of the stone 
implements of other parts of the world ; prehistoric art ; typology and sequence-dating. 
The technological processes employed by the peoples of lower culture and their distri¬ 
bution ; the form, decoration, and distribution of the more important implements, 
weapons, and structures of savage and barbaric peoples ; pictorial, decorative, plastic, 
literary, and musical art. 
Social Anthropology. — Social organization ; marriage and kinship ; property 
and rank, descent, inheritance, and succession ; age grades; totemism; caste; secret 
societies; government ; trade and currency; slavery; customs and ceremonial of 
birth, childhood, adolescence, marriage, and death ; religion and magic ; animism ; 
cult of the dead ; animal and vegetable cults ; gods ; mythology. 
(4.) C. G. Seligman, M.I),, Professor of Ethnology in the University Oj 
London. 
Anthropology has an educative value at least equal to that of the other 
subjects studied in a university, with many of which it has numerous 
points of contact ; thus the description of the main races and the study 
of their geographical distribution have zoological, geographical, historical, 
and often archaeological bearing. Physical anthropology is connected with 
human anatomy and physiology ; cultural anthropology provides the key 
to many of the puzzles in aesthetics and religion. This is but the barest 
summary of the sciences upon which anthropology has a direct bearing ; 
as a matter of fact, anthropology, or ethnology—whichever it be called— 
has now been recognized by the principal universities in this country and 
on the Continent. 
Anthropology has special value in the training of administrators and 
missionaries. There is abundant evidence that the efficient administration 
of an alien people must be based on sympathy, and there can be no 
sympathy without understanding and knowledge. 
New Zealand is very happily situated. Apart from her own natives 
she has surrounding her in the Pacific a number of islands, whose peoples 
are perhaps the most interesting in the world, yet whose culture is 
vanishing so rapidly that even now in many places our chance of recover¬ 
ing it depends solely on the prolongation of the life of a few old men who 
have preserved in their memories the details of rites and customs that 
have not been practised for years. 
It cannot be said that in the past either New Zealand or Australia 
have risen to their opportunities or even to their responsibilities. Short 
