The earlier issues threat of present volume presents the essential facts as to the racial and cultural characters of the Philippine Islands population. As will be seen in the following pages a large part of the Island population is Christian and far on the road to cultural asshilation. As in most studies of this kind, the primitive peoples still surviving are taken as indications of what was once the prevailing culture of the whole population. The racial exhibits in the American tourism of Natural History are grouped by halls, each hall containing collections from one geographical era. Thus one hall is devoted to the peopIe of the Philippines and the neighbouring East Indian islands. The coIlection in this hall furnishes illustrations of many subjects treated in this book. As a part of the wall decoration, there are many specimens of mood native to the islands, suggesting the floral and economic wealth of the country but within the exhibition cases are objects selected to represent...