Indigenous races of the earth : or, New chapters of ethnological inquiry; including monographs on special departments contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky, and J. Aitken Meigs. Presenting fresh investigations, documents, and materials /

Indigenous races of the earth : or, New chapters of ethnological inquiry; including monographs on special departments contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky, and J. Aitken Meigs. Presenting fresh investigations, documents, and materials /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873
Other Authors: Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857, Maury, L.-F.-Alfred (Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred), 1817-1892, Pulszky, Ferencz Aurelius, 1814-1897, Meigs, James Aitken, 1829-1879
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadephia : J. B. Lippincott, 1857.
Subjects:
Craniology.
Acclimatization.
Monogenism and polygenism.
Monkeys.
Table of 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, by F. Pulszky
  • The cranial characteristics of the races of men, by J. A. Meigs
  • Acclimation, by J. C. Nott
  • The monogenists and the polygenists ... with an inquiry into the antiquity of man, viewed chronologically, historically and paleontolgically, by G. R. Gliddon
  • Commentary upon the principal distinctions observable among the various groups of humanity, G. R. Gliddon
  • On the geographical distribution of the Simia in relation to that of some inferior types of men, by G. R. Gliddon.