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Medical Heritage Library

15 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

The skulls of the inhabitants of the Caroline Islands.

On the importance of a due estimate of the different modes and degrees of deformation of the skull, in the study of craniology / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

Note on the distortions which present themselves in the crania of the ancient Britons / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

19 pages, 1 unnumbered page, iv leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

On the osteology and peculiarities of the Tasmanians, a race of man recently become extinct / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

On synostotic crania among aboriginal race [i.e. races] of man / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

A popular manual of the art of preserving health : embracing the subjects of diet, air, exercise, gymnastics, general and physical education, occupations, bathing, clothing, ventilation, etc. etc. ... / By Mr. J.B. Davis, surgeon.

2 volumes in 1, plates : illustrations, portraits ; 38 cm

Crania Britannica : delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British Islands with notices of their other remains / by Joseph Barnard Davis and John Thurnam.

The Neanderthal skull : its peculiar conformation explained anatomically / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

xvii, 374 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

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The skulls of the inhabitants of the Caroline Islands.

On the importance of a due estimate of the different modes and degrees of deformation of the skull, in the study of craniology / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

Note on the distortions which present themselves in the crania of the ancient Britons / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

On the osteology and peculiarities of the Tasmanians, a race of man recently become extinct / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

On synostotic crania among aboriginal race [i.e. races] of man / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

A popular manual of the art of preserving health : embracing the subjects of diet, air, exercise, gymnastics, general and physical education, occupations, bathing, clothing, ventilation, etc. etc. ... / By Mr. J.B. Davis, surgeon.

Crania Britannica : delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British Islands with notices of their other remains / by Joseph Barnard Davis and John Thurnam.

The Neanderthal skull : its peculiar conformation explained anatomically / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

Thesaurus craniorum : catalogue of the skulls of the various races of man, in the collection of Joseph Barnard Davis / [J.B. Davis].

Observations upon sixteen ancient skulls found in excavations made on the Kirkhill, St. Andrews, 1860 / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

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The skulls of the inhabitants of the Caroline Islands.

On the importance of a due estimate of the different modes and degrees of deformation of the skull, in the study of craniology / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

Note on the distortions which present themselves in the crania of the ancient Britons / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

On the osteology and peculiarities of the Tasmanians, a race of man recently become extinct / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

On synostotic crania among aboriginal race [i.e. races] of man / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

A popular manual of the art of preserving health : embracing the subjects of diet, air, exercise, gymnastics, general and physical education, occupations, bathing, clothing, ventilation, etc. etc. ... / By Mr. J.B. Davis, surgeon.

Crania Britannica : delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British Islands with notices of their other remains / by Joseph Barnard Davis and John Thurnam.

The Neanderthal skull : its peculiar conformation explained anatomically / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

Thesaurus craniorum : catalogue of the skulls of the various races of man, in the collection of Joseph Barnard Davis / [J.B. Davis].

Observations upon sixteen ancient skulls found in excavations made on the Kirkhill, St. Andrews, 1860 / by Joseph Barnard Davis.

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