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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 Now ready, in 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 134, price 5s., cloth. 



On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus 

 HOMO. By Dr. PAUL BROCA, Secretaire General a la Societe 

 d'Anthropologie de Paris. Edited, with the permission of the Author, by 

 C. CARTER BLAKE, F.G.S. 



OPINIONS OF THE PKESS. 



" Although the author of the essay 

 can scarcely be supposed to have satis- 

 fied himself much less to have satis- 

 fied his scientific readers that he has 

 arrived at any certain and well-ground- 

 ed conclusion, he deserves the credit of 

 having written with some research and 

 acumen. It is evident that the writer 

 of the book has a strong bias to the 

 polygenist theory of the origin of man- 

 kind, but although we do not agree with 

 him in his principal deductions and 

 statements, we willingly allow his work 

 to be an able monograph on a highly- 

 interesting and curious subject, and one 

 that will well repay perusal." Medical 

 Times, March 1864. 



" While we find fault with the con- 

 clusions at which M. Broca arrives, we 

 cannot deny that he has given to the 

 student of Anthropology a very valuable 

 collection of information on an almost 

 unexplored subject. We have only to 

 guard ourselves from being led away by 

 the specious fallacies of his reasoning, 

 and we shall find before us a wide field 

 of thought and a subject of enquiry al- 

 most inexhaustible. We need only add 

 that the English edition has been pre- 

 pared with great care, and reflects ex- 

 treme credit upon its indefatigable 

 editor." Tablet, June 4, 18G4. 



" This is a work on a very abstruse 

 and much-debated question, and the 

 author has brought to bear upon its 

 elucidation a vast amount of scientific 

 research, being the results of observa- 

 tions in almost every part of the world." 

 Observer, April 10, 1804. 



'* It is wonderful what solid and valu- 

 able information has been here com- 

 pacted together within less than one 



hundred pages octavo. Another work 

 of very considerable value has thus 

 been added to the list of publications 

 now commenced, with a prospect, let us 

 hope, of fast multiplying into a sub- 

 stantial library, under the auspices and, 

 more than that, under the careful su- 

 pervision and at the direct instance of 

 the Society of our London Anthropolo- 

 gists." Sun, April 7th, 1864. 



" As a statement of the argument on 

 both sides of a subject very difficult of 

 investigation, Dr. Broca's treatise is 

 most acceptable, although we are by no 

 means satisfied that he has entertained 

 all the causes which may be concerned 

 in influencing the fertility of races, inter 

 se, in his estimate." London Review, 

 June 4, 1864. 



" The whole subject is too obscure to 

 warrant us in advocating either the one 

 view or the other ; but we can recom- 

 mend those who wish to make them- 

 selves acquainted with the present state 

 of our information on the question to 

 study the able treatise before us." 

 Scotsman, June 25, 1864. 



"It may be stated that the present 

 volume is the only one which completely 

 investigates the subject of human hy- 



bridity The volume is an addition 



to scientific lore ; we have no doubt that 

 the members of our various learned 

 societies will appreciate its worth, and 

 experience the same pleasure in reading 

 the translation which Mr. Blake states 

 he received when he first perused the 

 original. It is dedicated as a testimony 

 of respect and friendship to Richard 

 Owen, F.R.S." Morning Advertiser, 

 May 2, 1864. 



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