Journal of the Anthropological Institute.

11 vols. Numerous plates & illustrations. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spines gilt. clx, 427; 455; 2, 539; 508; 497, 40ads; iv, 527,1; iv, 552; iv, 432; viii, 477; viii, 474; viii, 516pp. London, 1872 -

A complete set of the journals spanning the decade between 1872-82, to which Richard Burton was a frequent contributor.

 

The Institute was formed from the Ethnological Institute in 1843, which was in itself a breakaway group of the Aborigines' Protection Society. The institute's mission was to become "a centre and depository for the collection and systematization of all observations made on human races."

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