American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 1

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Wiley, 1918 - Anthropology
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Page 293 - Chairman of the Department of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History, for arranging funds for making a large collection of ethnographica both from the Chin Hills and from Burma proper.
Page 374 - The Ohio board of administration' may assign the children committed to its guardianship to the 'bureau of juvenile research' 373 AMF.I1 JOCR. PHY». ANTHBOP., VOL. I, NO. 3 for the purpose of mental, physical and other examination, inquiry or treatment for such period of time as such board may deem necessary. Such board may cause any minor in its custody to be removed thereto for observation and a complete report of every such observation shall be made in writing and shall include a record of observation,...
Page 116 - While the intellectual performance of the general colored population is approximately 75 per cent, as efficient as that of whites, this figure is not true for different classes of negroes. It is probably correct to say that pure negroes, negroes threefourths pure, mulattoes and quadroons have, roughly, 60, 70, 80 and 90 per cent., respectively, of white intellectual efficiency.
Page 374 - Any minor having been committed to any state institution may be transferred by such 'The Ohio board of administration' to any other state institution, whenever it shall appear that such minor by reason of its delinquency, neglect, insanity, dependency, epilepsy, feeble-mindedness, or crippled condition or deformity, ought to be in another institution. Such board before making transfer shall make a minute of the order for such transfer and the reason therefor upon its record, and shall send a certified...
Page 313 - The young man was similar in his general appearance. This is the finest looking tribe, and the handsomest in their costumes, that we have found in our voyage. They exceed us in size, and they are of a very fair complexion; some of them incline more to a white...
Page 309 - As soon as dawn broke many of these people came to the beach, all youths, as I have said, and all of good stature, a very handsome people. Their hair is not curly, but loose and coarse, like horse hair. In all the forehead is broad, more so than in any other people I have hitherto seen. Their eyes are very beautiful and not small, and themselves far from black, but the color of the Canarians. Nor should anything else be expected, as this island is in a line...
Page 456 - States who have become Americanized affords the best basis of the measure for the further immigration of that people. 3. American standards of living should be protected from the dangerous economic competition of immigrants, whether from Europe or from Asia. 4. Such provisions for the care of aliens residing among us should be made as will promote their rapid and genuine Americanization and thus maintain intact our democratic institutions and national unity. 5. The federal government should be empowered...
Page 148 - Observations upon the cranial forms of the American aborigines, based upon specimens contained in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila.
Page 265 - The following resolutions were adopted unanimously at a meeting of Committees from all states (except Maine and Delaware), held in the Congress Hotel, Chicago. October 23, 1917. Whereas, The experience through which the United States is now passing should convince every thoughtful person of the necessity for the universal training of young men, not only for the national defense in case of need, but also to develop the nation's greatest asset — its young manhood — in physical strength, in mental...
Page 151 - The collection consisted of crania and bones of North American Indians, a few casts of crania of other races, several kinds of stone implements, and a few articles of pottery, in all about 50 specimens.

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