Manouvrier, Léonce Pierre (1850-1927)

Collection of Papers on Physical Anthropology [etc.]. Author's holograph MSS. (mostly incomplete). List of his Papers and Articles on Physical Anthropology [etc.]. (1) Conférence Broca, Les aptitudes et les actes dans leurs rapports avec la constitution anatomique et avec le milieu extérieur 1890 (62 ll. + 1 l.). (2) Note on the Anthropological Section of the Meeting of the British Association at Oxford, 1894 (11 ff. (fol. 8 wanting)). (3) Discussion du 'Pithecanthropus erectus' comme précurseur présumeé de l'homme. 1895 (66 ff. + 1 l.). (4) étude du crâne et ossements humains recueillis dans la sépulture néolithique dite la 'Cave des Fées à Brueil [c. 1895] (65 ff. + 3 ll., ff. 53, 62 wanting). (5) Le cerveau d'un Fuégien [c. 1895] (31 ll.). (6) Incomplete items, or fragments only (177 ll.). (7) List of his 94 published Papers. (8 ll.). Unfortunately no dates are given, and no particulars supplied as to the journals, etc. in which these papers were published. The first 5 items are apparently complete. Produced in Paris.

c. 1895

1 volume 414 ll. + 8 ll. 4to. 20 × 16 cm., 8vo. 22 1/2 × 15 1/2 cm. Unbound. Mostly written on the rectos only.

Presented 1934.

The author was professor at the école d'Anthropologie in Paris, and the Director of the laboratory.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).