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IN this work Mr. Grant takes up a theme which was broached by Dr. Gustav Retzius in his Huxley lecture to the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1909. In speaking of the two competing types of Europeanthe—tall, long-headed, blue-eyed Nordic type, and the short, round-headed, dark-eyed Alpine type—Dr. Retzius expressed himself thus:—
The Passing of the Great Race; or, The Racial Basis of European History.
By Madison Grant. Pp. xxi + 245. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1917.) Price 8s. 6d. net.
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K., A. The Passing of the Great Race; or, The Racial Basis of European History . Nature 99, 502 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099502a0
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