APPLETONS' 



POPULAR SCIENCE 



MO:^TTHLY. 



OCTOBER, 1898. 

 THE RACIAL GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE.* 



A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY.' 



(Lowell Institufe Lectures, 1896.) 



By WILLIAM Z. RIPLP:Y, Ph. D., 



ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY'; LECTURER 

 IN ANTHROPO-GEOGRAPIIY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'. 



SUPPLEMENT.— RUSSIA AND THE SLAVS. 



0]Sr the east, tlie west, and the north, the boundaries of the Russian 

 Empire are drawn with finality. Its territory ends where the 

 land ends. The quarter of this empire which is comprised in Europe 

 is defined with equal clearness on three sides and a half. Only along 

 the line of contact with western Europe, shown on our map facing page 

 724, is debatable territory to be found. Even here a natural frontier 



* To a number of eminent anthropologists I am especially indebted for assistance in the 

 collection of original Slavic materials used as the basis of this paper. Among these should 

 be especially mentioned with grateful recognition of their invaluable aid : Prof. D. N. Anut- 

 schin, president of the Society of Friends of Natural Science, Ethnology, and Anthropology 

 in the Imperial University at Moscow ; Prof. A. Tarenetzky, president of the Imperial Mili- 

 tary Medical Academy at St. Petersburg ; Prof. Lubor Niederle, of Prague ; Dr. Adam 

 Zakrewski, chief of the Statistical Bureau at Warsaw ; Dr. Talko-Hryncewicz, now in Trans- 

 baikal, Siberia ; Dr. Oleclmowicz, of Lublin ; Dr. Matiegka, of Prague, and others. In the 

 translation of tlie Slavic monographs, I have been aided by Charles S. Hall, Es((., of the 

 Suffolk bar, and Dr. Leo Wiener, of Harvard University. 



All references run to an exhaustive Bibliography of the Anthropology and Ethnology of 

 Europe, which, after more than a year of unceasing application, is about to be issued as a 

 special bulletin by the Boston Public Library. It will contain the complete title in the 

 original language of every monograph to which reference is made. Through the courtesy 

 and liberality of the librarian and trustees, together wath the generosity of many Slavic 

 authors, it is due that nearly all these papers, many of them rare, are now in the collections 

 of the library. 



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