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1871 that Pumpelly, owing to a combination of circumstances, declined 
the chance to take up all the even-numbered sections along twenty miles 
of the Gogebic iron range and thus, as he himself expressed it, ‘‘missed 
the opportunity of a lifetime.”’ 
In 1903-4 occurred what the author regards as the most interesting 
part of his hfe—namely, the Carnegie expedition to Turkestan under his 
leadership. The purpose was to test the hypothesis that Central Asia 
was the primitive home of the Aryan race, by studying the traces of 
prehistoric civilizations and seeking evidences of geological and climatic 
changes during and since the glacial period. In a way it was the climax 
of the author’s travels and professional work. Excavation at Anau in 
southern Turkestan revealed, among other things, the fact that the Stone 
Age inhabitants of this region used stone sickles with sharp cutting edges, 
while arrowheads and weapons of the chase were unknown to them. 
From this and other lines of evidence it seemed safe to conclude that the 
Neolithic peoples of Turkestan were not hunters but agriculturalists. 
Though sketching a scientific career, the topics treated are so spiced 
and stocked with amusing anecdotes that they must appeal strongly 
to the general reader as well as to the geologist. The narrative is lively 
and always interesting. 
R. tee 
