ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPEDITION to LAPONIA. 3 Pieces from 1888: 1 - Lot 590

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPEDITION to LAPONIA. 3 Pieces from 1888: 1 - Lot 590
ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPEDITION to LAPONIA. 3 Pieces from 1888: 1) Letter A.S. Ch. MARTINS to the head of the "Jardin des Plantes de MONTPELLIER (Hérault)": "My dear Confrère, I am delighted that you have been able to recover your Cephalometer and even more so that you have decided to publish the observations made in the North by M. Bravais and myself... They include measurements of the heads of Lapps, Finns and Faroese.... I know nothing about the shape of Eskimo heads..." Montpellier May 23 + 2) Arrêté du Ministère de l'Instruction publique et des Beaux-Arts (En-tête imp.) qui arrêt qu'Henry MEYNERS D'ESTREY, Membre de la Société Géographique de Paris, est chargée d'une Mission Scientifique à l'effet d'explorer les régions montagneuses de la Scandinavie et d'étudier, outre l'ethnographie, certaines questions d'anthropologie préhistorique se rattachant à ces contrées." Paris June 1, 1888 + 3) Letter of introduction for Sweden and Norway signed by René GOBLET Minister of Foreign Affairs (printed letterhead, + envelope) Paris June 23, 1888, for his ethnological and anthropological Mission.
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