Indigenous races of the earth, or, New chapters of ethnological enquiry
Subtitle: including monographs on special departments of philology, iconography, cranioscopy, palaeontology, pathology, archaeology, comparative geography, and natural history
By: contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky and J. Aitken Meigs ; presenting fresh investigations, documents, and materials by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott; Trübner
Published: 1857
Place of publication: Philadelphia; London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 656
Subjects: Ethnology; Language and languages; Craniology; Monogenism and polygenism; Acclimatization; Monkeys
Other titles: New chapters of ethnological enquiry
Notes: Includes a list of subscribers, p. 651-656.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prefatory remarks by G. R. Gliddon; title: Letter from Lieut. A.W. Habersham; title: Letter from Prof. L. Agassiz; title: Letter from Prof. J. Leidy; title: On the distribution and classification of tongues / by A. Maury; title: Iconographic researches on human races and their art / F. Pulszky; title: The cranial characteristics of the races of men by J. A. Meigs; title: Acclimation / by J.C. Nott; title: The monogenists and polygenists ... / by G. R. Gliddon; title: Commentary upon the principal distinctions observable among the various groups of humanity / by G.R. Gliddon; title: On the geographical distribution of the Simiae in relation to that of some inferior types of men / by G.R. Gliddon.