On the phenomena of hybridity in the genus homo / by Paul Broca ... ; edited with the permission of the author, by C. Carter Blake.

  • Broca, Paul, 1824-1880.
Date:
1864
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Credit: On the phenomena of hybridity in the genus homo / by Paul Broca ... ; edited with the permission of the author, by C. Carter Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/140 (page VII)
    EDITOE'S PKEFACE. The Publishing Committee of the Anthropological Society have clone me the honour to confide to me the task of editing Dr. Broca's valuable little volume. This duty I have now fulfilled, and hope that the members of the Society and the general public will experience the same pleasure in reading the translation, as I received when first I perused the original. The causes which led the committee to suggest the publication of the present translation are lucidly ex¬ pressed by the motto which Dr. Broca placed on his title- page. The public mind is so little acquainted with the real facts relating to the hybridity of the Races of Man, that its investigation, non ex vulgi opinione, sed ex sano judicio, is necessary to the efíicient progress of our science. Such an appeal, however, necessitates that the whole subject should be again reviewed, and to attain this object the perusal of a work on similar principles to that of Dr. Broca becomes the primary requisite for future researches. It may be said, that no work which so com¬ pletely investigates the whole subject of Human Hybridity has ever been published, and the Council having con¬ firmed the recommendation of the Publishing Committee,