Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon.

  • Nott, Josiah C. (Josiah Clark), 1804-1873.
Date:
1860
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNOUNCEMENT. On publisliing a work calculated to attract notice in the scientific and literary world, it is due to tlie Authors, the Subscribers, and ourselves, to invite comparison between the proposals set forth in the First Prospectus [New Orleans, Dec., 1852], and their realiza- tion in the greatly-enlarged form in which “Types of Mankind” now issues from our hands. In the first place, that monument, which Dr. Nott and Mr. Gliddon proposed jointly to erect to the memory of Samuel Geo. Morton, has become augmented by the contributions of Prof. Agassiz, Dr. Patterson, and Dr. Usher. Secondly, in lieu of a book projected to contain printed matter equivalent to Vol. I. of the Smithsonian Institution, we have the satisfaction of presenting our Subscribers with more than double the typographical amount originally promised. “ Above 200 wood- cuts” were guaranteed: the number, herein furnished, runs up to Fig. 3G2. No lithographic Plates were contemplated in the first announcement, and but one Map. Of the former we now include five, whereof one is a colored Tableau; of the latter two, and both are tinted: at the same time that the Tables, &c., are abundantly increased in number and variety. Nor in the general execution, quality of paper, and minor details, has labor or outlay been spared