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AT a recent interview with Mr. Charles Marvin, M. Semenoff, vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society, remarked that “every annexation in Central Asia is a source of satisfaction to our scientific men. Fresh fields are opened up for research, and all this must naturally be of interest to persons devoted to science.” Some such thoughts will probably have occurred to most ethnologists on hearing that Korea has at last broken through the barriers of exclusiveness and concluded com mercial treaties both with England and the United States. Foreigners will doubtless for some time be restricted to the three treaty ports thrown open on the eastern and southern coasts, and to Seul, the capital, where British and American political agents will reside. But the oppor tunities thus afforded of studying the interesting inhabi tants of this region cannot fail to be gradually extended, until the whole peninsula becomes accessible to scientific exploration. Meantime a few notes on the ethnical rela tions of the people to their neighbours will probably be acceptable to the readers of NATURE.
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KEANE, A. Korean Ethnology . Nature 26, 344–345 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026344c0
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