Indigenous races of the earth, or, New chapters of ethnological inquiry; including monographs on special departments ... / contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky and J. Aitken Meigs ; presenting fresh investigations, documents, and materials by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon.

Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1857.

xxiv, 25-656 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plate (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

At head of title: Subscriber's copy.

Prefatory remarks, by G. R. Gliddon.--Letter from Lieut. A. W. Habersham.--Letter from Prof. L. Agassiz.--Letter from Prof. J. Leidy.--On the distribution and classification of tongues, by A. Maury.--Iconographie researches on human races and their art, by F. Pulszky.--The cranial characteristics of the races of men, by J. A. Meigs.--Acclimation, by J. C. Nott.--The monogenists and the polygenists ... with an inquiry into the antiquity of man, viewed chronologically, historically and palaeontologically, by G. R. Gliddon.--Commentary upon the principal distinctions observable among the various groups of humanity, by G. R. Gliddon.--On the geographical distribution of the Simiae in relation to that of some inferior types of men, by G. R. Gliddon.