VI PREFACE 



Yakobson, Consultant in the Library of Congress, very kindly stand- 

 ardized some of the spelHngs in order to follow the Library of Con- 

 gress system of Russian transliteration. Some place names follow 

 the spelling approved by the Board on Geographical Names. We 

 noted, but could not correct or change, differences in terminology ; 

 we have kept as close to the original as possible. In some cases we 

 have made minor additions to elucidate the text either in footnotes 

 with initials or in brackets. 



Since we have often taken considerable editorial license with the 

 text in the selection and rearrangement of the materials, we decided 

 to place the name of the author in the first footnote of each article. 

 On the other hand, there should never be any question as to the 

 authorship of any statement. 



This publication should be considered as complementary to our 

 previous publications on the U.S.S.R. (see chapter IV, footnotes 

 I, 2), to my "Contributions to the Anthropology of Iran," and in 

 particular to my forthcoming "Contributions to the Anthropology of 

 the Caucasus," wherein will appear my anthropometric data on the 

 North Osetes and Yezidis as well as Soviet comparative data on 

 Ciscaucasia and Transcaucasia. 



No bibliography has been compiled because, for the sake of con- 

 venience, references have been listed in the footnotes. 



In the preparation of this material for publication, I have had 

 some editorial assistance from Miss Morelza Morrow. As already 

 mentioned, Mrs. John F. Normano and Mrs. David Huxley trans- 

 lated part of the material. The greater part of the text was typed by 

 Miss Elizabeth Beverly in Thomasville, Ga. Miss Betsy King Ross, 

 who very kindly assisted in the final stages of preparation, also typed 

 part of the manuscript. We wish to acknowledge with gratitude all 

 this assistance. We also wish to thank Dr. T. Dale Stewart, curator 

 of physical anthropology of the United States National Museum, for 

 making helpful suggestions regarding certain portions of the manu- 

 script. My wife generously assisted in the compilation of the statis- 

 tical tables and in proofreading the copy. 



We are grateful to Soviet anthropologists, who have contributed so 

 much to our knowledge of ancient and modern man from the Ukraine 

 to Siberia and from the Far North to Central Asia. 



We received information in 1939 and in 1945 that anthropometric 

 surveys were in progress in European Russia, in the Caucasus, 

 Turkestan, Central Asia, and Siberia, and hope that at some not too 

 distant date we may be able to make the new results available to the 



