RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Wilson, Physical Ethnology. CUL-DAR85.A82. 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: 351-352, n64: "Wilson, 'Physical Ethnology,' Smithsonian Institution, 1863, p. 288".


[A82]

X 250} Peruvian skull [illeg]

253 - {ancient race America different

264 266 285 287 288 290} Deformed [Head] [few words illeg]

(Not content with elongation of skull to much extent, they used [illeg] by Hair)

Dr. Wilson: Ancient & Modern Times in Smithsonian Report


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