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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo03amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The American Museum Journal Vol.. 111. UC lOliKR, 1903 No. 5
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S;OR many years the American Musetim of Natural History has had before it the investigation of the life of man on this continent, and since 1897 the Jlj larger question of the tribal relations between the early inhabitants of ^Vmerica and those of Asia. Much time and labor have been devoted to these researches, the most important of which have been included in the work of the Jesup North Pacific E.x.pedition. This enterprise has aroused public interest to such an extent and evoked so many inquiries from all parts of the world that it has been deemed best to give a brief resume of the history of its organization and of the field work which has been carried out by it. The resume, which is published in this number of the Journal, has been prepared by Professor Boas, to whom President Jesup intrusted the planning and direction of the whole expedition. It is not easy to find men of science fully cjualified for such technical lines of research, and though the personnel of the different parties carrying on the work is given in the narrative, it will not be out of place to state regarding the men engaged to prosecute the investigations in Siberia that Dr. Laufer was recommended to the Museum by the Academy of Sciences at Berlin as a man amply equipped for work in this territory, while Messrs. Jochelson and Bogoras bore the highest testimony from both that Academy and the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. With such men, the Museum felt that whatever the final results might be, it certainly had placed its interests in worthy hands. The list of papers that have been published gives some idea of what has been ac- complished already. It is estimated that the completed series of scientific reports resulting from this expedition will fill at least twelve quarto volumes. The readers of the Journal ma\- be interested in the inner 69

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