Baer published his scientific and archaeological works in the publications of our Academy of Sciences, to which his activities undividedly belonged since the early 30s. In anthropology, Baer recognized the high importance of craniological research; several of his memoirs (for example, “Sgapia Zeiesia,” “On the skulls of the Rhaetian Romans,” “On the Vendian skulls,” “On the collection of skulls belonging to the Tukya Academy,” “On the macrocephals of Crimea and Austria,” etc.) are devoted to this subject. Always cautious in his conclusions, Baer rarely decided to determine which tribe this or that skull belonged to, and was content only with determining which tribe a known skull could not belong to, i.e., coming to a negative conclusion. He even believed that science currently cannot give any other positive result. This caution in conclusions could still serve as a good lesson for those anthropologists who are in a hurry to draw extensive historical conclusions from several cranometer intentions.... Along with anthropological ones, Baer conducted archaeological studies. On his initiative, the Academy of Sciences acquired from the famous Danish archaeologist Worso the remaining drawings of the Museum of Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen and published them with a Russian preface by the same Baer. At the same time, Baer drew up a project for an archaeological and ethnographic expedition in Russia, from which he expected such rich results, both to explain the ancient state of mankind, and especially for that period in the history of the Russian land, about which other monuments are silent. the other - "On the ancient state of man in Europe. These memoirs complement each other and at the same time serve as the best popular presentation of the subject; the best because they take into account the rich material supplied by the Russian land.... Even more than an archaeologist, Baer was an ethnographer; he himself made several trips (to Novaya Zemlya, to the far north, to Caspian); important travel enterprises of Middendorf, Castren, and the Hungarian Reguli took place at the suggestion and with all kinds of support from our scientist. In relation to geography and ethnography, the name of Baer enjoys well-deserved honor: together.
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from acad. Helmersen and he published 26 volumes of Veiigyde gig Keppipsh (ez Vmzzrzschep VeisNz, which contains many of his ethnographic articles, among other things: “On the achievements of Peter V. in terms of disseminating geographical knowledge,” “On the primeval treelessness of the south” Russian steppes "On the ruins of Majar" etc... Beer outlined his concepts "about the influence of external nature, the social relations of individual peoples and the history of humanity in a separate memoir under the same title. The conclusion he comes to is the following: "The fate of a people is determined in advance and, as it were, inevitably by the nature of the area they occupy. When the earth's axis moves rayed its inclination, the water separated from the land, mountain ranges rose and countries were divided from each other - the fate of the human race was already determined in advance, and world history is nothing more than the fulfillment of this predetermined fate." A historian who allows a certain amount of freedom in the movements of the human spirit can hardly agree with such a conclusion, but nevertheless Baer’s memoir itself does not lose its primary significance; at least in In all of European literature it is impossible to point out works that, in such a small volume, would combine such a wealth of brilliant thoughts and considerations. The last time of his life, Baer was occupied with a number of new historical and ethnographic issues, which he tried to explore in the last two volumes of his “Minor Works.”11 The third volume is especially interesting: it contains “The solution of some historical issues with the help of natural sciences.”11 Thus, those adventures of Odysseus, which are mentioned in the X and XI books of Homer, in his opinion, quite clearly indicate the localities The Black Sea, Laestrigonian Bay exactly corresponds to the Balaklava Bay. Even more important for us is the article exploring “the ancient trade route of the Black Sea Skgyuys to inner Asia.” Herodotus (IV, 21 - 25) talks about the peoples who lived to the north and east of the Scythians, he conveys some features about their way of life, the nature of the countries, that the last known peoples are the Argippaeans, that they eat a fruit called pontish. Considering all the natural-historical and geographical features noted by Herodotus, Baer comes to the conclusion that the country of the Argippaeans lay in Central Asia, adjacent to such a region. Chinese Turkestan. Baer follow in detail in 1873-77