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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 
EDITED BY 
Colonel Lane-Fox, now Lieut.-General Pitt-Rivers, 
D.C.L., F.R.S. 
(abridged.) 
These Notes and Queries are published by the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science. 
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The object of the work is to promote accurate anthropological 
observation on the part of travellers, and to enable those who are 
not anthropologists themselves to supply the information which is 
wanted for the scientific study of anthropology at home. 
History has confined itself chiefly to the achievements of special 
races ; but the anthropologist regards all races as equally worthy 
of a place in the records of human development. The more 
remote and unknown the race or tribe, the more valuable the 
evidence afforded of the study of its institutions, from the 
probability of their being less mixed with those of European 
origin. 
