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ANTHROPOLOGY owes much to Prof. Gerland, whose completion of the two last volumes of the late Prof. Waitz's “Anthropologie der Naturvölker” is a monument of that co-ordinated knowledge of fact which is the source of sound principle. His new “Atlas of Ethnology,” while forming part of the great Physical Atlas of Berghaus, may be obtained and used as a separate work by anthropologists, to whom it will be of great service in methodizing the vast and growing information with which they have to deal. This application of graphical method, it is true, has difficulties which even the greatest skill cannot altogether overcome, but Prof. Gerland may well be content with his success in making evident at a glance the characteristics of mankind, seen from many points of view. Their distribution over the earth, as thus made evident, may often lead straight on into theories of origin. The fifteen plates contain nearly fifty maps, each suggesting a principle, or showing where there is room for one.
Atlas der Völkerkunde.
(Berghaus' Physikalischer Atlas, Abth. vii.). Bearbeitet von Dr. Georg Gerland., Professor a.d. Universität in Strassburg. (Gotha: Perthes, 1892.)
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TYLOR, E. Atlas der Völkerkunde. Nature 47, 223–224 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047223a0
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