Abstract
THE account which Prof, de Mortillet gives of the formation of the French nation is based upon archaeological data. It is true that he depends on anthropological materials, but these are prehistoric, and therefore archæological. The anthropological investigations on modern Frenchmen by Broca, Topinard, and others have been neglected; even the brilliant researches of Collignon are not referred to. The book thereby loses somewhat in breadth, and the linkage of the past with the present, which the author so firmly appreciates, would have been brought home more forcibly to the general reader if these investigations had been summarised.
Formation de la Nation Francaise.
By Gabriel de Mortillet. With 153 engravings and maps in the text. (Paris: F. Alcan, 1897.)
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H., A. Formation de la Nation Francaise. Nature 56, 538–539 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056538a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/056538a0
