The races of Europe : a sociological study (Lowell Institute lectures) / by William Z. Ripley.

  • William Zebina Ripley
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[1899]
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Credit: The races of Europe : a sociological study (Lowell Institute lectures) / by William Z. Ripley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only possible international arrangement, that each country should preserve its indigenous spelling. As for the legends and titles, they lie outside the drawing proper, and necessarily must correspond to the language of the text.* It would be disingenuous not to confess pride in the col- lection of portrait types inclosed between these covers. This is the more pardonable, inasmuch as a failure thus to recog- nise its value and completeness would be to reflect lesser credit upon those to whose entirely disinterested efforts the collec- tion is really due. Without the earnest co-operation and never- failing interest of the eminent authorities in all parts of Eu- rope, to whom specific reference is made at appropriate places in the body of the text, as well as by name in the index list of portraits, this work of scientific illustration of the dry matter of the text would have been almost impossible. For the proper selection of portrait types necessitates an intimate knowledge of the people of each country, not possible to the observant student but only to those who have lived and worked among them often for months at a time. Words are inadequate fully to express the deep measure of obligation of which I am sensible for assistance along these lines. Among all the European authorities to whom I am in- debted in various ways, there is no one to whom the obliga- tion is so great as to my friend Dr. John Beddoe, F. R. S., late president of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain. From first to last, his interest in the work—especially evi- denced by way of candid criticism upon all points of detail— * In this connection vve may note a few errata indelibly fixed in the engravings : viz., on page 170, for Basse Navarra in France, read Basse Navarre; on page 169, for Medoc, read M6doc ; on page 1S9, for Bilboa and Plamplona, read Bilbao and Pamplona respectively ; on page 225, it should obviously be Schleswig; and on page 517, Savoie; at page 318 possibly Edinburgh ; and on the folding map at page 222, Tyrol should be Tirol and Wurtemburg should properly be Wiirtemberg.
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