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    Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States
    Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States
    Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States
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    Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States

    By Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States - Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

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      Title: Anthropology

      As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States

      Author: Daniel Garrison Brinton

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      ANTHROPOLOGY:

      AS A SCIENCE

      AND

      AS A BRANCH OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

      IN THE UNITED STATES.

      BY

      DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D.,

      PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN ARCHÆOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA,

      AND OF GENERAL ETHNOLOGY AT THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA;

      CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF WASHINGTON,

      NEW YORK, PARIS, BERLIN, ST. PETERSBURG,

      VIENNA, MUNICH, FLORENCE, ETC.

      PHILADELPHIA:

      1892.

      PREFATORY NOTE.

      This very brief presentation of the claims of Anthropology for a recognized place in institutions of the higher education in the United States will, I hope, receive the thoughtful consideration of the officers and patrons of our Universities and Post-Graduate Departments.

      The need of such a presentation was urged upon me not long since by the distinguished president of a New England University. Impressed with the force of his words, I make an earnest appeal to our seats of advanced learning to establish a branch of Anthropology on the broad lines herein suggested. It may be but one chair in their Faculties of Philosophy; but the

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