from editor's In place of a preface, Dr. Holmberg has asked me to say that much in his account of Finno-Ugric and Siberian Mythology is the result of personal acquaintance with various tribes. In the summer of 1911 he lived amount the heathen Votiaks. In the summer of 1912 he traveled in Siberia among the Siberian Arctic peoples. And in the summer of 1913 he lived among the Cheremias. Signed J A MacCulloch, editor