BERTILLON, Louis-Adolphe, and others.

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Collection of 41 works on demography, bound by Bertillon and presented to a close family member and colleague. A personal selection of articles by the pioneering demographer and anthropologist, inscribed to his niece Jeanne on the initial blank of Volume I, "à ma chère fillette et collaboratrice Jeanne Bertillon. 1880. A. Bertillon", and with a similar inscription in Volume II. The second volume includes five leaves of manuscript notes, while several works bear his pencil annotations. The works collected here, a range of offprints and journal extracts, largely revolve around Bertillon's efforts to use statistical analysis in investigating premature mortality. The articles in Volume I cover more general demographic theories, including comparative mortality, population tables, and cranial analysis, while those in Volume II are more restricted studies of individual countries, continents, and cities, including America, Australia, and Finland. Many are essays contributed to Dechambre's Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales.In Volume II, the Dictionnaire encyclopédique article on Austria is accompanied by four leaves of manuscript notes recording population information on Austrian provinces, while the fifth is tipped in to a later article on Great Britain and assesses the median age of the British population following the 1861 census. By 1876, Bertillon (1821-1883) was a professor at the school of anthropology in Paris; a year later he was among the first contributors

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