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DR. BERNATZIK is an explorer who has been in turn big game hunter, photographer and ethnologist, completing his anthropological studies and taking his doctorate at the University of Vienna with a thesis on a West African tribe. In 1932-33 he visited the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and the Island of Bali, and while he promises that the scientific results of his observations will appear elsewhere the Geographical Magazine of December contains an account by him of a stone age tribe in New Guinea he here gives his readers a foretaste of his quality in a series of sketches dealing with the natives and incidents of travel in the localities visited. They make lively and interesting reading, and give some informative glimpses of plantation as well as native life, especially in the Solomons. Anthropologists will probably find the remarkable series of very fine photographs, more than a hundred in number, of greater interest than the text.
Südsee: Travels in the South Seas
By Hugo Adolf Bernatzik. Translated from the German by Vivian Ogilvie. Pp. xvi + 158 + 80 plates. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 137, 447 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137447c0
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