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THE members of the Siberian Expedition sent out from this country sixteen months ago, at the joint expense of the Oxford University School of Anthropology and the Philadelphia University Museum, reached London last week. The leader, Miss M. A. Czaplicka, possessed exceptional qualifications for the work entrusted to her, being a native of Russian Poland, and a distinguished student of the Warsaw University and of Somerville College, Oxford. The expedition consisted of Miss Curtis, the artist, Miss Haviland, ornithologist, and Mr. Hull, of Philadelphia University, ethnologist. They proceeded from Warsaw to Krasniack, in Siberia, and thence to the mouth of the Yenisei. The first tribe examined was that of the Samoyeds, and then the winter was spent among the Tungus of the Tundra, a very primitive race, little influenced by Russian culture. The spring was devoted to the Tartars, who are much more civilised than either the Samoyeds or the Tungus. Much information of scientific interest has been acquired, and a large collection of costumes, weapons, implements, and ornaments made of copper and iron has been made. These will, it is hoped, be exhibited in Europe and America after the close of the war.