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Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 March 1933Vol. III, No. 8

Anthropology.

p. 15 · Read in the full issue

Five Years’ Grant.

AT a recent meeting of the Sydney University Senate it was announced that the Commonwealth Government had provided a sum of £1250 per year

for five years for the Department of An thropology. The Department will, there fore, carry on its work as in the past.

Dr. Elkin, Lecturer in-Charge, said that research students, native officials and missionaries were doing invaluable work and it was essential that the de partment be maintained to train them.

There are four students in New Guinea and a fifth is on his way to join them.