XXXIV PREFACE. 
Transcaspia, and Madame Ussakofski entertained us socially. And all the 
details connected with organizing and continuing our work at Anau were 
carefully managed by General Ussakofski and the district Natchalnik Colonel 
Kukol-Yaznopolski, while the required government supervision was cour- 
teously executed by Mr. A. Semencf. 
At Bairam-ali (Merv) the Director of the Imperial Domain, Mr. Yere- 
mief, gave us a house for all the members of the expedition, and Madame 
Yeremief made our stay pleasant sccially in their beautiful house. 
Here, too, we were aided in many ways by Herr von Brandt, assistant 
to the Director. At Bokhara we had, as on the previous expedition, reason 
to be grateful to Baron Tscherkesof for aid in visiting Old Bokhara and for 
aid in obtaining from the Ameer permission for R. W. Pumpelly to travel in 
the remote parts of the Khanate and in taking the steps that insured for him 
the hospitable reception extended to him throughout his journey. 
We shall never forget the unbounded kindness shown us at Samarkand 
by General Medinski, the Governor, ard Mademoiselle Collins, who took 
Mrs. Pumpelly and Miss Brooks and myself at once into the charming Gov- 
ernment House and in every way made our stay delightful. And after our 
departure General Medinski perfected the arrangements for my son’s expe- 
dition. 
To Professors Hoernes, of Vienna; Heierli, of Ziirich; Pigorini and 
Colini, of Rome, I am indebted for kindly given aid in examining the col- 
lections in the great museums of those cities. And in Paris I have to thank 
Mr. Hubert, of the Museum of St.-Germain-en-Laye, not only for guidance 
through the collections, but also for undertaking to have the metallic imple- 
ments from Anau repreduced in wax, which was most artistically executed 
by M. Chamipion. 
To Professors Sayce and Flinders Petrie and Mr. Reissner I owe many 
thanks for instructive interviews in connection with Babylonian and Egypt- 
ian archeology. And to the many hours spent with Professor Sergi during 
repeated visits to Rome and the deep interest taken by him in our work in 
Turkestan I owe not only much encouragement and instruction, but also his 
important contribution to these volumes. 
Dr. William James, Jr., very kindly volunteered his services in prepar- 
ing from Mr. Langdon Warner’s photographs and sketches of the skeletal 
remains the drawings that are reproduced in Mr. Warner’s report. 
No strall part of the success of the expedition of 1904 is due to the vol- 
unteer work cf Mr. Warner and of Miss Hildegard Brooks. Miss Brooks, in 
addition to other duties, acted as assistant to Dr. Schmidt, recording the 
lists of finds and assorting the great mass of fragments of pottery that were 
collected daily. 
