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A LITTLE while age archæologists and students of the prehistory of the Eurasiatie continental tract received with profound regret and no little dismay the news that no further numbers of Eurasia Septen-trionalis Antiqua would be published. This much-valued archæological periodical has been issued under the auspices of the Finnish Archæological Society and edited by A. M. Tallgren, professor of archæology in the University of Helsinki. Founded by Prof. Tallgren himself, it has contained in the twelve volumes of its issue many notable contributions to archæological science in its special field, the pre-history of European and Asiatic Russia and adjacent regions, by archæologists of world-wide reputation; but its mainstay has been the work of its editor, Prof. Tallgren himself, who has devoted more than thirty years to this subject. It was his constant aim, however, to advance knowledge in this field by synthetic study of the broader problems, rather than by specialized research; and for this purpose it has been necessary for him to seek international cooperation both by way of comparative study and for constant reference to, and verification from, original material in museums and collections. This assistance has been given freely. Prof. Tallgren modestly attributes the success of Eurasia to the collaboration of more than a hundred archæologists in Europe and the United States. He personally, for his own special studies, has relied to no little degree upon the help of his Russian colleagues; but for some time past he has received no periodicals from Russia, and his letters and inquiries addressed to Russian archæo-logists have remained unanswered. The failure of this essential source of information and the absence of collaboration from this field of investigation leave so many gaps and uncertainties in Prof. Tallgren's studies that with profound reluctance he has come to the conclusion that his work, and with it the publication of Eurasia, must come to an end.
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Science and Political Theory under the Soviets. Nature 144, 971–972 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144971c0
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