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Indigenous races of the earth : or new chapters of ethnological inquiry; including monographs of special departments of philosophy, iconography, cranioscopy, palaeontology, pathology, archaeology, comparative geography, and natural history. contrib. by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszhy and J. Aitken Meigs. pres. fresh investigations, documents, and materials by J. C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon

Maury, Alfred [1817-1892] Leidy, Joseph (1823-1891) Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873) Nott, Josiah Clark (1804-1873) Gliddon, George Robins (1809-1857) 1857

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  • Title:
    Indigenous races of the earth : or new chapters of ethnological inquiry; including monographs of special departments of philosophy, iconography, cranioscopy, palaeontology, pathology, archaeology, comparative geography, and natural history. contrib. by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszhy and J. Aitken Meigs. pres. fresh investigations, documents, and materials by J. C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon
  • Author: Maury, Alfred [1817-1892]
  • Leidy, Joseph (1823-1891);
    Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873);
    Nott, Josiah Clark (1804-1873);
    Gliddon, George Robins (1809-1857)
  • Subjects: Anthropologie;
    Ethnologie
  • Description: At head of title: Subscriber's copy
    Prefatory remarks by R. R. Gliddon.-Letter from Lieut. A. W. Habesham.-Letter from Prof. L. Agassiz.-Letter from Prof. J. Leidy.-On the distribution and classification of tongues, by A. Maury.-Iconographic researches on human races and their art, F. Pulszky.-The cranial characteristics of the races of men, by J. A. Meigs.-Acclimation, by J. C. Nott.-The monogenists and polygenists... with an inquiry into the antiquity of man, viewed chronologically, historically and paleontologically, by G. R. Gliddon.-Commentary upon the principal distinctions observable among the various groups of humanity, by G. R. Gliddon.-On the geographical distribution of the Simia in relation to that of some inferior types of men, by G. R. Gliddon
  • Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & co., 1857
  • Creation Date: 1857
  • Format: xxiv, 25-656p. : col. front., illus., plates (l fold.) fold. col. chart. ; 27 cm
  • Language: English

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