BLOOD RELATIONSHIP

Shannon News, 15 November 1927, Page 3

BLOOD RELATIONSHIP

STUDY OP ANTHROPOLOGY

"The International Congress at Amsterdam showed the increasing world-wide interest being taken in anthropology," said Professor Graft ton Elliot Smith. Professor of Anatomy t in the University of London, and Australian delegate to ( the congress, to the special representative of the gun.

"The discussions on inter-breeding blood relationships, arid inheritance were most important, in view of the proposed Pan-Pacific Congress in Java in 192 ft. which will review all the anthropological French war-time experiments showed that transfusion of the blood of different races was sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful. They resembled scientific blood-groupings.

"The congress discussed the possibility of blood examinations disclosing inheritance, including parentage. Although it i s possible to assert that a particular man could not be th& father of a particular child, it cannot be said that a particular child is the offspring of a particular man. The delegates visited Haarlem, whtTe thoy saw the footprints of a Palaeolithic rrmn, which were discovered in the hard mud of the- Pyrenees. There they had been undisturbed for 30,000 years, alongside the remains of a sabretoothed tiger."