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TWO interesting papers on stone circles, by Mr. A. L. Lewis, have recently been published by the Anthropological Institute. One dealing more particularly with the stone circles of Scotland occurs in the Journal of the Institute (vol. xxx. New Series, vol. iii. 1900), and the other, on the damage recently sustained by Stonehenge, appears in Man—the monthly record of anthropological science published under the direction of the Institute. We reprint the latter paper, with the two illustrations accompanying it, and are glad to acknowledge the courtesy of the Institute in permitting us to do so. And here it will not be out of place to remark that both the Journal and Man are full of papers and notes of interest to every one devoted to the study of the human race in its many aspects. When one considers how little encouragement is given to the science of anthropology in this country, it is really astonishing to see the large amount of excellent material published under the auspices of the Anthropological Institute. The U.S. Bureau of Ethnology have funds to publish magnificent volumes showing the results of ethnological investigations carried on by its officers, but here there is no similar department for the preparation and distribution of such contributions to science, and anything that is done represents the result of private efforts for the advancement of natural knowledge. Even if no assistance is given to systematic anthropological inquiries in our colonies and dependencies, every facility ought to be provided for the publication of facts obtained by observers interested in the characteristics and customs of the races of men.
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Stonehenge and other Stone Circles . Nature 63, 575–577 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063575b0
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