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FOUR sumptuous volumes of this encyclopaedic work have already appeared within a year under the general direction of Prof. Lucien Febvre. A total of twenty-one volumes is projected, including one of bibliography and one of indexes. The previous volumes are entitled “L'Etat Moderne”, “Litteratures et Arts Contemporaines”; and the present one, “L'Espece Humaine”, is edited by Dr. Paul Rivet with the collaboration of M. Paul Lester and the aid of fourteen contributors. It has been issued in fifty-five fascicles, the complete quarto volume having a heavy black leather binding case.
L'Espèce humaine
Encyclopédic française, Tome 7. Pp. 574 + 40. (Paris: Comité de l'Encyclopédie française; Libr. Larousse, 1936.) 125 francs.
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GATES, R. L'Espèce humaine. Nature 139, 4 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139004a0
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