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An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

Sir William MacGregor / R.B. Joyce.

William MacGregor, 1846-1919 : doctor and governor / T.G. Hawley.

Catalogue of specimens : in the anthropological museum, Marischal College, University of Aberdeen / deposited by Sir William MacGregor, 1899-1909.

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Macgregor, William, Sir, 1846-1919.

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Catalogue of specimens : in the anthropological museum, Marischal College, University of Aberdeen / deposited by Sir William MacGregor, 1899-1909.