Editorial Note

Statements may have been published in May last which now are regretted: but they almost were worth while in that they have brought from Dr. Buck this interesting summary of the position of anthropological research in the Pacific.

Sooner or later, we of the United Nations will undertake the duty of plan ning a new world in the Pacific. There will be a tendency, then, to give first consideration to the mundane affairs of the present day. It will be necessary, then, for the friends of the Pacific ter

ritories to stand together, to see that proper provision is made for the native peoples in all planning for the future; and Dr. Buck’s statement serves to remind us that there, in that American endowed Bishop Museum, there is a vast accumulation of collated data dealing with every aspect of native life, from the theories of the Polynesian migrations, right up to present-day “Europeanisa tion.” American altruism created the Bishop Museum. It is to be hoped that American world-planners will see that the knowledge accumulated by the Museum is effectively used.