Observations on the size of the brain in various races and families of man : with ethnological remarks : manuscript, [18--?] / by Samuel George Morton, M.D., Phila[delphia].

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Observations on the size of the brain in various races and families of man : with ethnological remarks : manuscript, [18--?] / by Samuel George Morton, M.D., Phila[delphia].

Signed autograph copy of a draft of Morton's work, n.d. [19th cent.]; later published in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, October, 1849.

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