future investigation, and he discovered evidence of former Eskimo 
settlement in Newfoundland, Physical anthropology was begun when 
F. H. S. Knowles was appointed to the Museum staff in 1914. He 
made important studies on the Iroquois and the Eskimo but resigned 
in 1919 to return to England where he had inherited a baronetcy. 
Fig. 15, Diamond Jenness. Anthropologist with the Museum from 1916, 
Chief Anthropologist from 1925; retired in 1948, A pioneer in Eskimo ethnology; 
author of “Indians of Canada,” 
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