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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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the civilization of the Chinese dates back to such antiquity,it is a great mistake to suppose that China is a decadent country, or 6 Dr. A. Hrdlifka, Remains in Eastern Asia of the Race That Peopled America.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 60, No. 16. 12573°—21 31 470 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. its people a decadent race. In spite of periodical floods, famine,disease, and civil war, the population of China is, and has alwaysbeen, on the increase. To-day many of the Provinces can not sup-port this increase, and we have now, even as it was throughout theduration of the Ching dynasty, a steady emigration of Chinese ofall classes into Chinese Turkestan, southern Mongolia, and Man-churia. Now that the rigorous bureaucratic rule of Kussia underthe old regime has vanished, there is nothing to prevent Siberia beingoverrun, peacefully, by the Chinese settler and exploited by Chinesemerchants, who can hold their own against any other people of theseregions. PLATE
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Imprimee par V Neubert, Prague-Smiciov. THE OEIGIN AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THECZECHOSLOVAK PEOPLE. By JlNDfilCH Matiegka, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Anthropological Institute, Czech University, Prague. (With 4 plates.)NOTE. The notable history of old Bohemia, the recent liberation of the Czechoslovakpeople after three centuries of forcible subjection to Austria, and the won-derful anabasis of the Czechoslovak volunteer troops in Russia and Siberia,have raised in many minds a desire to know more about these people and theircountry. It is known that they are the western Slavs, but their exact deriva-tion, their early history, the relation of the Czechs to the Slovaks, and of bothto the other three main Slavic groups—the Poles, Russians, and Jugoslavs,together with their actual physical characteristics, are matters on which therewas hitherto but scarce information. It was to supply authoritative informa-tion of this nature, based on scientific research of most recent y

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