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An image showing two facing pages of the 1899 manual Notes and Queries on Anthropology detailing descriptive physical characters.

Notes and Queries on Anthropology: Descriptive Characters

An image showing pages 12 and 13 from the 1899 edition of Notes and Queries on Anthropology. The text presents a systematic framework titled 'Descriptive Characters' for the morphological and chromatic classification of human physical traits. Categories include skin coloration, …