Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson, M.D. and Charles Hercules Read, F.S.A.

Date:
1892
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson, M.D. and Charles Hercules Read, F.S.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    20/272 (page 6)
    Under Anatomical Observations he will find what he is to note regarding them. Eesearches on the comparative morphology of man are made on the skeleton and dead body. They are usually undertaken by anatomists and medical men in an anatomical laboratory or a hospital where anatomical works can be consulted and are outside the scope of this work. As however the traveller may have cpportvinities of examining the skeleton, though unable to secure it for the laboratory, and may possess some anatomical kuowledge, a few directions are given to enable him to inves- tigate its most important characters. The physiological part includes observations on the senses, the physical powers, circulation, respiration, psycho- logical development, &c. In this department the general tiaveller may make several important observations, while the more scientifically trained traveller will find it a still laiger field for I'eseai'ch. The same observation apphes to the patholugical part of the subject, which deals with abnor- malities 01' deviations from the usual type. These several branches of Anthropography are treated of in this work from the point of view of the general tiaveller, so as to guide him how and what to observe. At the same time many of the outlines of investigalions given will be useful to the more scientifically expert traveller, and ])Ossibly suggest others to his mind. For the ])urpose of stimulating medical men practising or stationed in various parts of the woi'ld to devote attention to Anthropography, as well as to the advancement of our knowledge of disease, some sections of a more purely medical character have been added to this part of the work. Some of these sections might more accurately have been placed in a diflerent order, or even in the second part of the work— Ethnography—but it has been thought better to keep all the medical sections together near those of an anatomical and })hysiological nature, even at the expense of consistency in classification. J. 0. G.