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Professor Shaler of Harvard and Professor Davis have also, in various articles and books, dealt with similar subjects, but Mr. Huntington is, so far as I know, the only specialist in this line, and the only one to associate his work, whenever that has been possible, with the conclusions reached by archaeologists. 
[[new paragraph, indent]]It was my good fortune to be associated in a minor capacity with Mr. Huntington, in the field on the Pumpelly-Carnegie Expedition to Turkestan in 1903-04, and to see something of his methods in connection with those of the archaeologists. I can speak with personal knowledge of the fact that our archaeologist on that occasion would have been entirely unable to read the meaning of certain of his observations had it not been for Mr. Huntington's contributions on climatic changes, weathering, marching sand dunes, water and wind erosion, loess deposit, etc.
[[new paragraph, indent]]While he would not call himself an archaeologist, Mr. Huntington is perfectly familiar with the field methods pursued by the modern excavators, and finds it to his interest to work in connection with them whenever it is possible. He is a good scholar of Russian and of several Central Asian dialects. He holds the gold medal of the Royal Geographic Society for being the first white man (probably the first man) to go down the gorge of the Euphrates River, and he has proved himself excellent in the field and able to control the services and confidence of his men.
[[new paragraph, indent]]I therefore recommend that this committee, when the more pressing work of the School is under way, take steps to procure

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