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When, somewhat light-heartedly, I suggested toM iss CV.aplicka, after she had taken theO xford Diploma in A nthropology, that she might most fruitfully undertake a monograph on the aboriginal tribes of Siberia, I confess that I had no clear idea of the magnitude of the task proposed. The number of Russian authorities concerned not to speak of the students of other nationahties is simply immense, as Miss Czaplicka sbibliography clearly shows. Moreover, as must necessarily happen in such a case, the scientific value of their work differs considerably in degree; so that a great deal of patient criticism and selection is required on the part of one who is trying to reduce the evidence to order. Now I am sure that Miss Czaplicka has proved herself competent to do this sifting properly. As a result, those students belonging to western Europe who could make nothing of the Russian originals and alas, they compose tlie vast majority will henceforth be in a position to fi-ame a just notion of the social anthropology of these interesting peoples of the Far North. Hitherto, they have had to depend largely on the recent discoveries made by the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, or else to go back as far as the classical researches of such writers as Castren or Pallas. Of course there remains much to be accomphshed still.
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