2 GIUFFRIDA-RUGGERI & CHAKLADAR 



superior and better instrument of Tverk and which greatly 

 reduce the labour of supplementary research, prove and 

 they have already proved to be useful to students of 

 anthropology. The tables which have been drawn up in 

 the early years of the present century, are due to three 

 eminent anthropologists, universally known, not for their 

 personal opinions which some people go prying about 

 for the proper estimation of unknown celebrities but for 

 the immense service that they have rendered to the pro- 

 gress of our studies, and they are, mentioned in the order 

 of publication of their works : Deniker, 1 Ivanovski, 2 and 

 Martin. 3 Whosoever has undertaken a study of anthro- 

 pology not purely morphological, or anatomical, since in 

 such a case it is necessary to have recourse to other 

 branches of science whoever has had to lecture on 

 anthropology, knows how much trouble has been spared 

 in research and with what rapidity things can be acquired 

 and mastered by making use of Deniker or Martin in 

 place of Topinard and Kanke. In this way is being 

 achieved a continuous progress hi toto, which attests to 

 the maturity and autonomy now attained by our science. 



Of course it is not to be thought that there is no 

 defect anywhere and that the work already done is above 

 all criticism. On the contrary, it is certainly our duty 

 however disagreeable to be very much on our guard 

 with regard to the data, supplied by Martin's tables 

 owing, it may be, either to the confirmed ill-health of the 

 author for which reason he left the public chair which 

 he had rendered illustrious at Zurich or to the exces- 

 sive confidence placed by him in some of his collabora- 

 tors, as is quite probable.- I give a few examples, with 



1 DENIKER (J ), Les Races ct le* Penplc* de la Tern'. Paris, 1900, Appendices. 



2 IVANOVSKI (A. A.), Naselenie Zemnogo sciara. Moscow, 1911. 



3 MA.KIIN (R,), LVhrbuch tier Anthropologie in ayfttematischfr Dar,*tellimy. Ji'i 

 1914. 



