Abstract
THE Government of Nigeria is to be congratulated on its wise policy in relation to anthropology. Not only is the study of this subject encouraged in its officials, but also official anthropologists have been appointed both in the northern and southern provinces, and a census has been published for each. Instead of these latter being mere lists of names and numbers, they are in both instances (the other instance being Mr. Meek's “The Northern Tribes of Nigeria”) mines of information which will be valuable alike to administrators and to all other workers and travellers in these vast and little-known districts.
The Peoples of Southern Nigeria: a Sketch of their History, Ethnology, and Languages, with an Abstract of the 1921 Census.
By P. Amaury Talbot. Published for the Crown Agents for the Colonies. Vol. 1: Historical Notes. Pp. xii + 365. Vol. 2: Ethnology. Pp. xx + 423 + 67 plates. Vol. 3: Ethnology. Pp. x + 425–976 + 66 plates. Vol. 4: Linguistics and Statistics. Pp. v + 234. (London: Oxford University Press, 1926.) 4 vols., 70s. net.
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S., B. The Peoples of Southern Nigeria: a Sketch of their History, Ethnology, and Languages, with an Abstract of the 1921 Census . Nature 121, 975–977 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121975a0
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