Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London, Tomy 1-2

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Trübner and Company, 1866
List of members appended to each volume.

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Strona 380 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Strona 380 - Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Strona 156 - Actions, Sensations, and States of Feeling, occurring together or In close succession, tend to grow together, or cohere, in such a way that, when any one of them is afterwards presented to the mind, the others are apt to be brought up In idea
Strona 1 - MARTIN'S PLACE, TRAFALGAR SQUARE. HIS SOCIETY is formed with the object of promoting the study of Anthropology in a strictly scientific manner. It proposes to study Man in all his leading aspects, physical, mental, and historical; to investigate the laws of his origin and progress; to ascertain his place in nature and his relations to the inferior forms of life...
Strona 359 - Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep: Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep.
Strona 1 - ... facto science of man. No Society existing in this country has proposed to itself these aims, and the establishment of this Society, therefore, is an effort to meet an obvious want of the times. This it is proposed to do : First. By holding Meetings for the reading of papers and the discussion of various anthropological questions. Second. By the publication of reports of papers and abstracts of discussions in the form of a Quarterly Journal ; and also by the publication of the principal memoirs...
Strona 291 - ... in Japan, in America, the South Sea Islands and elsewhere, have for the most part such an extraordinary resemblance to one another in point of form, that one might almost suppose the whole of them to have been the production of the same maker. The reason of this is very obvious, namely, that their form is that which first and most naturally suggests itself to the human mind.
Strona 382 - ... the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Strona 3 - CONTENTS.— I. On the Negro's Place in Nature. By James Hunt, Ph.D., FSA, FRSL FASL, President of the Anthropological Society of London.— II. On the Weight of the Brain in the Negro. By Thomas B. Peacock, MD, FRCP, FASL— III. Observations on the Past and Present Populations of the New World. By W. Bollaert, Esq., FASL— IV. On the Two Principal Forms of Ancient British and Gaulish Skulls. By J. Thurnam, Esq., MD, FASL With Lithographic Plates and Woodcuts. — V. Introduction to the Palaeography...
Strona 282 - ... position to indulge in legitimate speculation. We should have to concede — I say it without hesitation — that, in prehistoric times, an intercourse existed between the British Islands and Central America ; that this intercourse could not be maintained by the small crafts which so rude a civilization could send across the wide Atlantic Ocean ; that a land communication was absolutely necessary to ensure such an intercourse ; that it could not have been carried on by way of Asia without leaving...

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