ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO LAPLAND. 3 Documents from 1888 - Lot 671

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO LAPLAND. 3 Documents from 1888 - Lot 671
ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO LAPLAND. 3 Documents from 1888: 1) Letter from A.S. Ch. MARTINS on letterhead from the “Jardin des Plantes de MONTPELLIER (Hérault)”: “My dear Colleague, I am delighted that you were able to recover your cephalometer and even more so that you have decided to publish the observations made in the North by Mr. Bravais and myself... It includes measurements of the heads of Lapps, Finns, and inhabitants of the Faroe Islands.... I know nothing about the shape of Eskimo heads...” Montpellier, May 23 + 2) Decree from the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts (Official letterhead) decreeing that Henry MEYNERS D’ESTREY, a member of the Paris Geographical Society, is entrusted with a scientific mission to explore the mountainous regions of Scandinavia and to study, in addition to ethnography, certain issues in prehistoric anthropology pertaining to those regions.” 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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