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THESE two works form two volumes of Baillière et Fils' “Bibliothèque Scientifique Contemporaine.” The first, by the eminent Professor of Anthropology at the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, treats of the Pygmies, a diminutive race of mankind known to the ancients, alluded to by Homer, insisted upon as really existing by Aristotle, next believed to be but myths, and now established as a veritable race of the human kind. The author accepts for them the terms, suggested by Hamy, of Negritos and Negrilles, the latter being confined to the African Pygmies, and the former to those of the Asiatic Isles.
Les Pygmées.
Par A. de Quatrefages.
Les Ancêtres de nos Animaux, dans les Temps Géologiques.
Par Albert Gaudry. (Paris: J. B. Baillière et Fils, 1887–88.)
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Two French Books . Nature 38, 4 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038004a0
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