Elephants and ethnologists / by G. Elliot Smith; woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton.

  • Smith, Grafton Elliot, 1871-1937.
Date:
1924
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Credit: Elephants and ethnologists / by G. Elliot Smith; woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the truth of any belief citing the most irrelevant reasons in justification of their faith. The recognition of this fact makes it easier to understand the nature of the excuses put forward by some ethnologists in the vain attempt to get rid of the elephant-designs that are so compromising to the most cherished dogmas of their ethnological faith. In collecting the Indian and Indo-Chinese evidence set forth in this book, I have had the loyal and enthusiastic help of Mr. Philip Jayasuriya ; and in thanking him I must also make some acknowledgment of the valuable assistance he received from the Dutch ethnologists in Leyden and The Hague, and from the Library staff of the Royal Asiatic Society. Horace Gerrard has prepared most of the woodcuts that illustrate this book: the others have been engraved by his collaborator, K. Leigh Pemberton. They present the argument in graphic form and provide the justification for the issue of this book. Without the assistance of Mr. Fred Hall, B.Sc.(Econ.),, I would not have been able to prepare the manuscript for the press now. I am very grateful to him, not only for putting my notes into consecutive form, but also for checking the bibliographical references. G.E.S.