The Races of Man is ank excellent outline of the twin sciences of anthropology and ethnography. In addition to the actual facts of the subject it provides brief explanations of these facts based on the theories bearing on them. Theauthor has ventured at times to advance his own views where there seemed to be a conflict among the various theories. Special care has been taken in the selection of illustrations which elucidate the text. Technical terms have been explained and annotated with a view to enabling even a general reader to understand the fundamentals of these sciences. The extensive bibliographical notes which contain a vast body of information ga5thered from notes and memories in all language make the book a valuable reference work for even professional anthropologists.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR J. Deniker
Joseph Deniker (1852) French naturalist and anthropologist , was born of French parents at Astrakhan, Russia in 1852. After receiving his education at the university and technical institute of St. Petersburg, he adopted engineering as a profession, and in lthis capacity travelled extensively in the petroleum districts of the Caucasus, in Centre Europe, italy and Dalmatia, settling at Paris in 1876, he studies at the Sorbonne, where he took his degree in natural science. In 1888 he was appointed chief librarian of the Natural History Museum, Paris. Among his many valuable ethnological works mention may be made of Recherches analomiques of embrt-ologiques sur les stnges anthropoldes (1886); etude sur les Kalmouks (1883) Les ghillaks (1883) and Races at Peuples de La terre (1990). He became one of the chief editors of the Dictionnaire de Geographic Universelle, and published many papers in the anthropological and zoological journals of France.
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