A Description of the Desiccated Human Remains in the California State Mining Bureau (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Description of the Desiccated Human Remains in the California State Mining Bureau Gentlemen: In compliance with your invitation, I have the honor to submit the following article on the mummified human remains now on exhibition in the Ethnological Department of your Bureau. Subjoined to the description and measurements of these ancient bodies I have made a few observations on: The infancy of the intellectual races and their ethnological classification, some of the habits and foods of the savages now inhabiting different parts of the globe, the probable origin of the aborigines of the Pacific Coast, their historical traditions, burial ceremonies, myths, etc. - all relating more or less to the existence of a once flourishing race - the ancestors of our present mummifications. In the preparation of the paper I have availed myself of the many interesting and valuable anthropological and ethnological data from the pens of some of the most renowned scientists and writers the world has ever produced, and it is desired to make due acknowledgment here to all those who have not been mentioned in the body of the article. Prominent among these are the names of Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, Haeckel, Cortes, Acosta, Clavigero, Duran, Sahagun, Diaz, Chaves, Karl, Snell, Hale, Plint, Farrar, Herrera, Bancroft, Prescott, De Bourbourg, Powell, and many daily, weekly, and monthly journals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.