Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873, [from old catalog] ed, Gliddon, George Robins, 1809-1857, [from old catalog] joint ed, Maury, Louis Ferdinand Alfred, 1817-1892. [from old catalog], Pulszky, Ferencz Aurelius. [from old catalog], Meigs, James Aitken, 1829-1879. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.; London, Trübner & co. · leaf 359
Creole Negro. Mummied Negress. Passing from Africa to America by the way of the Canary Isles,we encounter a peculiar type or form of skull — that of the ancientGuanches, who inhabited these Isles before they fell into the posses-sion of the Spaniards. The annexed cut (Fig. 59, on next page,)shows… … GUANCHE. rather to the Caucasian family, as sug-gested by Cuvier, in his observations uponthe Venus Eottentotte.256 This opinion is con-firmed by a Guanche skull in the MortonianCollection. Through Crania Americana, it has longbeen known to the scientific world that aremarkable sameness of…
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