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destined to be perpetuated, it not being rational, and, 

 moreover, being surpassed by historical events. 



Of the other authors, I shall mention that Mrs. 

 Tochelson-Brodsky, on her return from the " Jesup Ex- 

 pedition," published in 1906, two tables, one of the stature, 

 and the other of the ceph. index " of the ural altaic peoples 

 and of the other peoples of north-eastern Asia/' 1 making 

 known to the west the great progress that the anthropolo- 

 gical study of these peoples had made in the Russian 

 empire, and adding a few new facts from that useful 

 " Expedition," which, however, notwithstanding the 

 high patronage of the " American Museum of Natural 

 History," has not yet published all the anthropometric 

 results. The comprehensive designation of these peoples 

 is however so confusedly arranged as to place the Lapps 

 alongside the Torguts, the Chukchi beside the Tatars 

 of Cazan, the Chinese next to the Baskiri and so on. 



I believe that we should consider this first period of 

 preparation of the materials of study as at an end and 

 that we may pass on to the second period, when we 

 should try to find some logical orientation among such 

 data as have gone on accumulating ; this orientation can 

 perhaps be realised by distributing the peoples as if they 

 could be classified in varieties and sub- varieties, allocating 

 them in a provisional scheme and overlooking all that, 

 unfortunately a great deal which we ignore about them. 

 The objection is obvious : the peoples represent ordi- 

 narily mixtures of many varieties. Nevertheless we do 

 not consider it convenient to adopt the system of having 

 pure series (Sergi): it would be very easy to set aside all 

 that which does not fit in well enough, but naturally 

 would thus be so much the less convincing for others. It 

 is necessary instead to take the ethnic groups just as 



1 JOCHELSON-BRODSKY (D.), Zur Topographic ties weiblichen Korpery nordottsibiri. 

 sc/ir Volker. Arch, f, Anthrop. N. F., V., 1906, pp. 7, 12, 



