| | 2 | Author: | Gliddon, George Robbins, 1809-1857 | | | | | Egyptologist, controversialist. Gliddon was co-author of Types of Mankind (1854) with Josiah Nott and wrote several other essays on race and ethnology. While serving as American vice-consul in Cairo in the late 1830s and early 1840s, he collected skull specimens for S.G. Morton, described in the latter's published works. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Samuel G. Morton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 31 March 1839 - 24 May 1840 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Egyptian craniology; skull collections | | | | Source: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
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