Letter : [Washington, D.C.], to [Frederick Webb] Hodge, 1909 Sept. 7.

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Letter : [Washington, D.C.], to [Frederick Webb] Hodge, 1909 Sept. 7.

Sept. 7, 1909, letter from Hrdlička to Frederick Webb Hodge, editor of the American anthropologist, recommending against publication of a paper by anthropologist Robert Bennett Bean concerning Philippine racial types.

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