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THE firm of Trübner and Co. has done well in admitting this translation as a member of its Philosophical Series. The work is a thoughtful contribution by an able linguist to the science of anthropology as elucidated by the study of language. It is full of interesting facts and suggestive ideas concerning each of the following subjects, which form the headings of the six chapters of which the work consists:—The importance of language in the development of the race, the earliest history of the race as elucidated by language, the colour-sense of primitive times, the origin of writing, the discovery of fire, and the primitive home of the Indo-Europeans.
Contributions to the History of the Development of the Human Race.
By Lazarus Geiger. Translated from the second German edition by Daniel Asher, Ph.D. (Trübner and Co.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 26, 103 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026103b0
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