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IN a recently-published work Dr. P. Topinard makes the statement that ethnography is cultivated in England because it leads to a knowledge of the natives, and thus prepares the means of turning them to account. This distinguished French anthropologist appears to have permitted his dispassionate judgment to have temporarily forsaken him. Alas! ethnography is but little cultivated in this country, and it may be said to be almost entirely neglected by our Government. It was to take away this reproach in some measure, and to seize the present opportunity in South Africa, that led Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, the President of the Folklore Society, to read before the Anthropological Section of the British Association at Bradford a very carefully considered and temperate paper, βOn the Imperfection of our Knowledge of the Black Races of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies.β
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HADDON, A. A Plea for the Study of the Native Races in South Africa . Nature 63, 157β159 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/063157e0
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