first major published work in English on the ethnography of Africa, widely regarded as an "ethnological classic". The anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber in a review praises the book for its "vast amount of accurate information" in such concise form. The first book edition was published by Home University Library and later in the same year by Oxford University Press, and was used in many universities, in history and anthropology classes through to the late 1970s. Races of Africa was also revised four times, Seligman published a second revised edition in 1939, a year before his death: "Additions to the original edition published nine years ago include a note on the importance of the Boskop skull…an account of the Pygmies as described by Paul Schebesta and a slight alteration in the classification of the linguistic stocks of the Guinea Coast". A third edition (revised) appeared in 1957, which was later reprinted by demand in 1959 and 1961. This edition is notable as it was "brought up to date" by over a dozen anthropologists, and was very well received. A final revised edition was published in 1966 and the book was republished up to 1979. Selected works Melanesians of British New Guinea (1910) The Veddas (1911) with Brenda Seligman Some Aspects of the Hamitic Problem in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1913) Races of Africa (1930, 1939,1957,1966) The Pagan Tribes of Nilotic Sudan (London: Routledge, 1932) with Brenda Seligman He and his wife's papers are held at the London School of Economics. References External links Seligman biography at Minnesota State University EMuseum Catalogue of the Seligman papers at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics. British ethnologists British Jews Jewish anthropologists 1873 births 1940 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Presidents of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland