Anthropology

Mr. W. C. Groves to Do Research Work in N.G.

AN interesting traveller, for New Guinea, by the “Montoro,” at the end of April, will be Mr. W. C.

Groves, who has been awarded to Fel lowship for research in anthropology by the Australasian National Research Council. The Council administers funds supplied by the Rockefeller Foundation, U.S.A., and money is thus provided for valuable research work.

Mr. Groves, who has been engaged for some time as a lecturer at the Teachers’ College, Melbourne, is a young man who is well-known in New Guinea, where he was employed in the administrative service between 1922 and 1926. His brother-in-law is Mr.

Norman Foxcroft, of the Bitapaka wireless station.

The study of anthropology has al ways appealed strongly to Mr. Groves and he will now, for a year, have ample opportunity to indulge his hobby. He will spend some time in the Territory, acquainting himself with New Guinea’s native educational methods and will then settle down at a special camp in the central district of New Ireland.

Mr. Groves is acquainted with the latest developments in anthropology, and has been following with interest the researches of Dr. Reo Fortune, who, with his talented wife (Dr. Mar garet Mead, a well-known author) has been busy in Papua and New Guinea for some time. Mr. Groves regards Dr. and Mrs. Fortune as two of the most expert field workers in anthropology in the world to-day. Dr. Fortune’s book on Papuan life, “Sources of Dobu,’’ is a distinct contribution to the literature on primitive life.