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DR. DUCKWORTH gives in the September issue of Man sin account, with a full catalogue of his writings, of the eminent Italian anthropologist, MAJOR-GEN. RIDOLFO LIVI, whose death on April 12 last was a serious loss to science. Gen. Livi is best known by his great work, “Anthropo-metriaMilitare,” published in 1896–98, which deals mainly with the question of physical development in relation to fitness for military service. He was also author of a manual of anthropometry of wide scope and originality, and of a treatise on domestic slavery in Italy in medieval times. Gen. Livi died at the age of sixty-three, his degrees in medicine and surgery being taken in 1878, when he entered the Army. He served in the African campaign of 1887–88 as well as in the recent war, holding at the time of his death the rank of major-general, to which he was promoted in 1917.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 155 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106155b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106155b0