sentences:  (27 February 1851, in Valletta – 29 March 1907, in Sfax) was a Maltese ethnographer, archaeologist and writer.Magri gave a significant contribution as a scholar through his collection of Maltese folk tales and lore.Working at the end of the 19th and the turn of the 20th centuries, Magri's important work saved for posterity ethnographic material which would have otherwise been lost through modernisation and more widespread education.