The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 11Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1882 |
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aboriginal Andaman Andamanese Angamis animals Anthropological appear Arabs arrow-heads Asiatic Avars bamboo believe bones Broca Bulgarians called Cape Flats celts chalcedony chert Chinese chips circle coast collection Colony cord Croats custom Danube death deposits described district E. B. Tylor east Emperor envoy European evidence feet flakes flint Gauchos gravel ground hair head Heung-noo hills Hottentots Imperial inches Indian island Jiresek Kaffir Keu-sze king kingdom Krum Kubrat large number latter Malagasy Marquis mentioned Museum Nagas Natal native necklaces neolithic Nicobarese occur Omortag origin ornamented Pannonia paper pieces Pitt Rivers Plate pottery present probably Protector quartz race remarks Roman sand Schafarik scrapers seen Semitic sent shells side Simeon similar skulls Society South Africa spear specimens spirits Stritter surface Thrace Town traces trachytic trepanning tribes tumuli valley vertebræ village Wang Mang weapons Woo-sun
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Page 398 - Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Commonwealth for the year ending December 31, 1880.
Page 358 - ... frequently occurred. More than once the men declared in the morning that some absent man, whom they named, had come during the night, and had beaten, or otherwise maltreated them; and they insisted on much rubbing of the bruised parts of their bodies.
Page 358 - Macusi, though better in health, was so enraged against me that he refused to stir, for he declared that, with great want of consideration for his weak health, I had taken him out during the night and had made him haul the canoe up a series of difficult cataracts. Nothing could persuade him that this was but a dream...
Page 256 - Mcaoafttov, together with two other Bulgarian bishops, Gabriel of Okhrida, and Simeon of Debeltus. He was probably the Agathon sent as an envoy to the Franks by the Emperor Basil in 873. The Bavarian geographer, after describing Bohemia and Marharii (ie, the Northern Moravia), goes on to speak as follows : " Vulgarii regio est immeusa et populus multus, habent civitates V., eo quod multitudo magna ex eis sit et non sit eis opus civitates habere. Est populus quem vocant Marehanos" (ie, no doubt the...
Page 363 - The Indian does not see any sharp line of distinction, such as we see, between man and other animals, between one kind of animal and another, or between animals — man included — and inanimate objects. On the contrary, to the Indian all objects, animate and inanimate, seem exactly of the same nature, except that they differ in the accident of bodily form.
Page 451 - V of the Transactions of the Epping Forest and County of Essex Naturalists' Field Club ; Entomological Report of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, for 1880, from the Editor, Prof.
Page 183 - If we had any approach to a complete palaeontological record, the history of man could be reconstructed ; but nothing of the kind is forthcoming. Evidences of the anatomical characters of man, as he lived on the earth during the time when the great racial characteristics were being developed, during the long ante-historic period in which the Negro, the Mongolian, and the Caucasian were being gradually fashioned into their respective types...
Page 502 - That the thanks of the meeting be given to the President for his address, and that it be printed in the Journal of the Institute." The Scrutineers gave in their report, and the following gentlemen were declared to be duly elected to serve as Officers and Council for the year 1885 : — President.
Page 478 - Director, read the following report : — REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FOR 1881.
Page 366 - Indian fears to be without his fellow, fears even to move beyond the light from his camp-fire, and when obliged to do so carries a firebrand with him, that he may have a chance of seeing the beings among whom he moves.