Kalmucks
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Kalmucks. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
KALPI ( people, scattered throughout central provinces and extending W. into southern The name is not employed by the Jumna; b figured pron themselves, but by the Turkish races Asia and the Russians to designate inst the N Dörbön ( Derbend) Oirad or Four into Briti of the prin tribes of the Zungars, Torgod ( Company or Eleuths), Khoshod, and Dörböd, Ch Rose har live in Zungaria; around Koko - nor ufactures N. E. Tibet; in the district called ets grain, c within the great loop of the Yellow o Calcutta) of China; on the W. slopes of the ( in Kuldja, etc.), and in the steppes tween the Don and the Volga and LUGA (ka an province pian. These tribes constitute that Tula and division of the Mongol race known In the navig Western Mongols. They are nomads an extens possessing large herds of horses, Manufactus and sheep. Their physical characterisallow, canu tics are those peculiar to the Mongolian "Kaluga c race ( see MONGOLIAN). In religion to the ext are nearly all adherents of Lamaism Pop. ab Their language differs from true Eastern Mongolian only in being phonetic; but they have an alphabet the princip The most noteworthy events their own. ing in the in their history arose out of the gov, nowin tion of a large band of the Torgod joining Zungaria into Russia in 1650. of Kazan: band was followed by others composed hich is na Dörböd in 1673 and of Khoshod in a branch Under Auka Khan ( 1670-1724) the hiles long, mucks figured as an important factor Lion between Russian politics, sometimes as enemies sometimes as allies. But in 1771 a body of them, chiefly Torgod and 'ma), the hod, returned to the empire of g, gener settling at Ili, among the Altai and Roma tains. But there still remain beautiful yo 110,000 Kaimucks in European ally carry in Asiatic Russia there are d of bees 55,000 more. The number within tipped wit Chinese empire is not known. ave some e carrie
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a Mongolian people. They number about 200,000. They live in tents, moving from place to place with their herds. They occupy the territory stretching from China through western Siberia into southeastern Russia. Their religion is a form of Buddhism. The Laplanders, now Christianized, and intermarried with Scandinavians, and dependent on herds of reindeer, are thought to have been originally a kindred people.