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DR. VINCENZO GIUFFRIDA-RUGGERI, professor of anthropology in the University of Naples, one of the leading anthropologists in Europe, died on December 21, after a brief illness. He was born at Catania, Sicily, in 1872, became a doctor of medicine in the University of Rome, 1896, and was thereafter appointed assistant to the professor of anthropology in that university, G. Sergi. He then commenced a career of extraordinary industry, contributing year after year some eight or ten original papers to the current literature of his chosen subject. Although Prof. Giuffrida-Ruggeri neither initiated any form of revolutionary idea nor opened any new chapter, yet his voluminous writings reflect more fully than those of any other writer the anthropological problems discussed by his contemporaries in Europe and America. The papers of his earlier years were devoted to studies of the skull, particularly of the face, but as time went on they broadened out into a study of human races in all parts of the world i He made a close study of the fossil remains of man, and in more recent years devoted himself to the evolution of man and to the origin and relationship of modern human races. The conclusions he had reached are set forth in two of his more recent books, “L'Uomo Attuale, Una Specie Collettiva” (1913), and “Su l'Origine dell Uomo,” 1921. By his death modern anthropology loses one of its most imposing and interesting figures.
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K., A. Prof. V. Giuffrida-Ruggeri. Nature 109, 183 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109183a0
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