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as present among the Armenians, Osetes, and Georgian Jews. Among 

 the more easterly groups the percentage of Group III (B) also 

 increased, and it was particularly high among the western Georgians 

 and Imeretians. It reached 15 percent in the Shorap region, through 

 which the high mountain road passed, and among the Rachins, east 

 Georgian people who were pusiied westward. 



In spite of the position of the Caucasus between Asia and Europe, 

 neither the Georgians nor the Armenians were found to belong to the 

 intermediate serological type, both being generally classed among 

 the European peoples. A tendency toward the Pacific type was noted 

 in western Georgia. The Armenians and the Georgian Jews showed 

 a greater percentage of A than O groups. The Turks alone could be 

 considered as an intermediary type, owing to the admixture of Mongo- 

 loid elements. 



Blood grouping'- was continued during 1936 by the Tiflis [now 

 Tbilisi] Branch of the Russian Institute for Blood Transfusion and 

 by various medical expeditions in Georgia. 



ISOAGGLUTINATION OF THE TURKOMANS 



Ginzburg " studied blood samples from 562 Turkomans of various 

 regions, which he collected during an expedition in 1936 under the 

 sponsorship of the Anthropological Institute of Moscow State Uni- 

 versity. 



This expedition investigated two of the three large, historicallv 

 known groups of Turkomans: the eastern Turkomans, seventeenth- 

 century settlers along the middle course of the Amu River, in the 

 Chardzhui and Kerkin regions of the former Khanate of Bukhara, 

 now forming the eastern portion of the Turkoman S.S.R. : and the 

 Transcaspian Turkomans of the region between the dspian Sea and 

 the Amu. The Transcaspian Turkomans were divided into a central 

 group, dwelling along the Murgab and Tedzhcn Rivers, and a western 

 group, living near Ashkhabad and farther to the west. 



A third large group, located in the former Tashauz region of the 

 Khanate of Khiva (now the northerlv section of the Turkoman 



*= During 1936-1938 the AntliropoloRical Section of lAF, obtained copies of 

 individual measurements described in this article. Other materials have been 

 forwarded from the Central Hlood Transfusion Institute, Tbilisi, and from 

 Dr. V. N. Giuprinin, of that city. At the present time the Anthropological 

 Section has 16,000 catalog cards of individual blood measurements from the 

 Caucasus. This collection is increasing rapidly. 



T3 Ginzburg, V. V., Izogemoaggliutinatsiia u Turkmen [Isoaggiutination of 

 Turkomansl. AZH, No. 2. pp. 79-82, 1937. 



