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See also:DENIKER, See also:JOSEPH (1852– ) See also:French naturalist and anthropologist, was See also:born of French parents at See also:Astrakhan, See also:Russia, on the 6th of See also:March 1852. After receiving his See also:education at the university and technical See also:institute of St See also:Petersburg, he adopted See also:engineering as a profession, and in this capacity travelled extensively in the See also:petroleum districts of the See also:Caucasus, in Central See also:Europe, See also:Italy and See also:Dalmatia. Settling at See also:Paris in 1876, he studied at the See also:Sorbonne, where he took his degree in natural See also:science. In 1888 he was appointed See also:chief librarian of the Natural See also:History Museum, Paris. Among his many valuable ethnological See also:works mention may be made of Recherches anatomiques et embryologiques sur See also:les singes anthropoides (1886); Etude sur les Kalmouks (1883); Les Ghiliaks (1883); and Races et peoples de la terre (1900). He became one of the chief editors of the Dictionnaire de geographie universelle, and published many papers in the anthropological and zoological See also:journals of See also:France.
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