The anthropological treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach : with memoirs of him by Marx and Flourens, and an account of his anthropological museum by R. Wagner, and the inaugural dissertation of John Hunter, on the varieties of man / translated and edited from the Latin, German, and French of the originals, by Thomas Bendyshe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840.

Contributor:

Bendyshe, Thomas, 1827-1886.

Evans Dental Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Anthropological Society of London. Publications.

Publications of the Anthropological Society of London

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Physical anthropology.

Anthropology--Classification.

Anthropology.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Evans, Thomas Wiltberger, 1823-1897 (donor)

Tucker, J. K. (Donor)

Physical Description:

xiv, 406, 20, 10 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Published for the Anthropological Society, by Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865.

Notes:

Each treatise with reprint of original t.-p.

Includes the author's On the natural variety of mankind, 1st (1775) and 3d (1795) editions, and his Contributions to natural history, 2 parts.

"Twelfth list of the foundation fellows of the Anthropological Society of London": p. [1]-20 at end.

Includes catalog of publications of the Anthropological Society of London: [12] p. at end.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contains:

Marx, K. F. H. (Karl Friedrich Heinrich), 1796-1877. Zum Andenken an Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. English. 1865.

Flourens, P. (Pierre), 1794-1867. Éloge historique de Jean-Frédéric Blumenbach. English. 1865.

Wagner, Rudolph, 1805-1864. Anthropologische Sammlung des Physiologischen Instituts. English. 1865.

Hunter, John, -1809. Disputatio inauguralis quaedam de hominum varietatibus. English. 1865.

OCLC:

187453437