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AS a survey of natural and applied science the “Encyclopædia Britannica” is a record of stupendous achievement by the human intellect in probing Nature's secrets and in the reduction of material conditions to subservience to man's needs. When we turn to the sciences which deal specifically with man himself and his past, we enter upon a field of discovery in which the results, if less speetacualr, offer no lesser appeal to the imagination, and redound no less to the credit of those to whose genius and patient piecing together of the evidence they have been due.
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Anthropology and Archæology in the “Encyclopædia Britannica”. Nature 126, 938–939 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126938a0
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