RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Davis, Oceanic races, their hairs, etc., and the value of skulls in the classification of man. CUL-DAR85.A67. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 349, n60: "Dr. Barnard Davis quotes Mr. Pritchard and others for these facts in regard to the Polynesians, in 'Anthropological Review,' April, 1870, 185, 191."
Davis, Barnard J. Oceanic races, their hairs, etc., and the value of skulls in the classification of man. Anthropological Review 8 (April): 183-196.
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Anthropolog Review no. 29 April 1870 p. 185. Mr Pritchard (*quoted by Dr B Davis) also resided many years in the Pacific isld says says the beard of the Fijian is "profuse & bushy & is his greatest pride" Whereas the Tongan & Samoan, inhabitant of not distant archipelago are "beardless & abhors a rough chin)
*This is also in same paper (p. 191) that on one isld also of the Ellice Group the "men are heavily bearded & not a little proud thereof".
(Man Sexual Selection)
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