The learned Professor, who by the way is a surprisingly young man (this is the young man's age, if ever there was one), left England about a year ago, and has been through Canada, the United States, Mexico, Japan—including the important island of Yezo, or Hokkaido, where he had the opportunity of investigating the Ainus, Mongolia, and North China. He has been in the last named country since April, and has been working mainly in the vicinity of Peking. In this connexion he wished to lay special emphasis upon the importance of the work being carried out by the Chinese Government Geological Survey under the capable management of Dr. V. K. Ting, Director of the Geological Survey, and Dr. W. C. Andersen, curator of the Geological Museum in (Peking.
From Hongkong and Canton, where he hopes to see something of the Hakka, or aborigines, Professor Buxton intends journeying to Java, the Malay States, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and so back to England, by which time he will have made a very comprehensive survey of the races of mankind. Having in mind the recent controversy in
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