The object of this study about the lost continent of Lemuria and its inhabitants is to establish by the evidence obtainable from geology and from the study of the relative distribution of living and extinct animals and plants, as well as from the observed processes of physical evolution in the lower kingdoms, the facts stated in the "Secret Doctrine" and in other works with reference to these now submerged lands.

William Scott-Elliot (1849-1919) was a theosophist and anthropologist.