Research Catalog

Title

Indigenous races of the earth, or, New chapters of ethnological enquiry [electronic resource] : including monographs on special departments of philology, iconography, cranioscopy, palaeontology, pathology, archaeology, comparative geography, and natural history / contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky and J. Aitken Meigs ; presenting fresh investigations, documents, and materials by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon.

Publication

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott ; London : Trübner, 1857.

Details

Additional Authors

• Maury, L.-F.-Alfred (Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred), 1817-1892.
• Pulszky, Ferencz Aurelius, 1814-1897.
• Meigs, James Aitken, 1829-1879.
• Nott, Josiah C. (Josiah Clark), 1804-1873.
• Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857.

Description

1 online resource (656 p., [12] leaves of plates (some fold.)) : fold. ill. (some col.), port., geneal. table.

Series Statement

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Uniform Title

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Alternative Title

New chapters of ethnological enquiry

Subject

• Ethnology
• Language and languages
• Craniology
• Monogenism and polygenism
• Acclimatization
• Monkeys

Note

• Includes a list of subscribers, p. 651-656.
• Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Prefatory remarks by G. R. Gliddon -- Letter from Lieut. A.W. Habersham -- 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 ... / 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 Simiae in relation to that of some inferior types of men / by G.R. Gliddon.

OCLC

• 875134921
• NCCO2012070

Title

Indigenous races of the earth, or, New chapters of ethnological enquiry [electronic resource] : including monographs on special departments of philology, iconography, cranioscopy, palaeontology, pathology, archaeology, comparative geography, and natural history / contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky and J. Aitken Meigs ; presenting fresh investigations, documents, and materials by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon.

Imprint

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott ; London : Trübner, 1857.

Series

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

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Added Author

Maury, L.-F.-Alfred (Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred), 1817-1892.

Pulszky, Ferencz Aurelius, 1814-1897.

Meigs, James Aitken, 1829-1879.

Nott, Josiah C. (Josiah Clark), 1804-1873.

Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857.