Punch,  42 (1862), 199.

The Craniology of Race

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Anatomy, Race, Ethnology


    Discusses a meeting at the Ethnological Society at which, following a paper by Charles C Blake on the 'character of the Peruvian skulls' (a version of which was published as Blake 1863), John Crawfurd denied that skulls could be used to determine racial differences, supporting his case with the example of a famous anatomist who 'pronounced the skull of a Scotchman to be that of a negro' (a reference to Richard Owen; see , PU1/34/23/8).



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