Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson and Charles Hercules Read.

  • Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson and Charles Hercules Read. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. Since the publication of the first edition of this Manual, in 1874, Anthropological Science has made such great advances that for some time past a second edition brought up to the requirements of the present time has been urgently required. Tlie British Association for the Advancement of Science appointed a Committee to consider and report as to the best means of doing this. The Committee recommended that the work should be transferred to the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. This recommendation was approved of by the Association, and to assist in defray- ing the cost of publication it has made grants amounting to £70. A further sum of £10 was presented by the late Dr. Muirhead, of Cambuslang, Glasgow, towards this object. The Council of the Anthropological Institute having under- taken the publication of the work, appointed the two editors and a Committee of its members to prepare the new edition under its supervision. It has been found necessary to re-cast entirely the first part-Anthi-opography—owing to the great development of this branch of the science. In doing so the editor has had