The Canadian journal of science, literature and history . SCIOTO-MOUND SKULL :—VERTICAL SCIOTO-MOUND SKULL:—LATERAL VIEW. peculiarities, either omitted or inaccurately presented in the engravings * The wood-cuts, originally executed to illustrate an abstract of Lectures onPhysical Ethnology, delivered by me at the request of the Regents of theSmithsonian Institution, at Washington, in 1862, have been kindly placed at myservice by Professor Henry. ;r ET MEAffURKMENTfc 277 referred to; tbey also illustrate the uncertainty which must pertain tothe most careful reproduction of
The Canadian journal of science, literature and history . SCIOTO-MOUND SKULL :—VERTICAL SCIOTO-MOUND SKULL:—LATERAL VIEW. peculiarities, either omitted or inaccurately presented in the engravings * The wood-cuts, originally executed to illustrate an abstract of Lectures onPhysical Ethnology, delivered by me at the request of the Regents of theSmithsonian Institution, at Washington, in 1862, have been kindly placed at myservice by Professor Henry. ;r ET MEAffURKMENTfc 277 referred to; tbey also illustrate the uncertainty which must pertain tothe most careful reproduction of typical forms by means of the deductions as to the characteristics of the supposedprecursors of the Eed Indians in the great river valleys of NorthAmerica, have been based on the assumption—rendered all the morereasonable by the general skill and accuracy of Messrs. Squier andDaviss illastrations.—that the well-executed lithographs of the Scioto-Mound skull did correctly represent the original. Seeing, then, the liability of the most artistic drawings to fail ins
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