Discoveries in science by the medical philosopher : An oration delivered on the ninety-sixth anniversary of the Medical society of London, Monday, March 8th, 1869 / by Sir G. Duncan Gibb, bart.

  • George Duncan Gibb
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1869
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Credit: Discoveries in science by the medical philosopher : An oration delivered on the ninety-sixth anniversary of the Medical society of London, Monday, March 8th, 1869 / by Sir G. Duncan Gibb, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    form of these people. They are traced into Lapland, and along the whole of the Polar regions to the Eskimo. They are traced south throughout the breadth of the two Americas, to Fuego; and are the most widely distributed of any divisions of mankind. A modification of the same type is found in all the islands of the Pacific which stretch from Van Dieman’s Land to New Guinea, and all those which lie outside the Sandwich Islands and New Zealand. The Negroid type has a most remarkable distribution. All Africa south of the equator, has been peopled by Negroes; they are found in Madagascar, and the Peninsula of Malacca; a trace in the Philip¬ pines ; and entirely in New Guinea; also in New Caledonia; and lastly in Tasmania, where the people are totally different from the Australians. The Zanthochroid type is now to be found all the way from the British Islands; through Scandivania; through Central Europe; to the frontiers of China. This people are traceable to the present day to Syria. This must suffice to give a general idea of Professor Huxley’s classification, which must interest every one who desires to think himself
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