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impressive and acceptable. There is nothing in the chapter on Totemism with which most students are not acquainted.

This is a very interesting and clearly written treatise, the earlier part of which is especially stimulating, as in it the author develops the logical conclusions which result from his main thesis.

A. C. Haddon.

Principles and Methods of Physical Anthropology (Patna University Readership Lectures, 1920), by Rai Bahudur Sarat Chandra Roy, M.A. Patna, 1920. 5 Rs.

It is very satisfactory to find that Anthropology is steadily making progress in India, and is being studied and taught by Indian scholars. Sarat Chandra Roy, who is well known to all interested in Ethnology by his excellent monographs on The Mundas and their Country (19 1 2) and The Or dons of Chota Nagpur (191 5), has recently been appointed Reader in Eth- nology in the Patna University, and, finding that he could not put in the hands of his students a succinct account of the general methods of physical anthropology, he has now published his first course of lectures in convenient form and with many references. The titles of his lectures will best indicate the nature of the book : " The Scope, Divisions and Methods of Anthropology and Man's Place in Nature " ; " The Antiquity of Man " ; " The Evolution Theory " ; " The Evolution Theory as applied to Man " ; " Man's First Home and Early Migra- tions " ; " Evolution of the Human Races and their Classifica- tion." Various schemes of classification of the existing races of man are given in an Appendix.

The book does not profess to contain original matter, and the author has borrowed from reliable sources, which are duly acknowledged, often making allusion to Indian ethnography by way of example. The third lecture is largely historical. The author is quite up-to-date in his reading ; thus he alludes to the effect upon growth, etc., of the internal secretion of the pituitary, pineal, interstitial, and other glands, and adds, >4r