HAMY, ERNEST THEODORE French anthropologist and ethnographer, was born at Boulogne-sur-mer on June 22, 1842. He studied medicine in Paris under Quatre fages, with whom he collaborated in his famous Crania Ethnica les cranes des races humaines (1875-82). In 188o he founded the Ethnological museum in the Trocadero, and acted as director until 1892, when he was appointed professor. Hamy devoted himself to research on the Mexican races and the South African tribes, and concluded that the Hottentots are the result of an ancient cross between these two races. He died in Paris on Nov. 18, 1908. Besides the above-mentioned work, he wrote : Anthro pologie du Mexique (1884, seq.), Decades Americanae (1899 1902), Etudes historiques et geographiques (1896), Joseph Dom bey (19o5), Aimee Bonpland (1906), and edited Lettres Ameri caines d'Alex. Humboldt (19o5).