Ethnology

About This Item

Title: Ethnology
Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00072
Source: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook. This manuscript is pasted down, making the verso inaccessible.
Contributors to digital file: Kevin McMullen Ashlyn Stewart
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Ethnology." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
Source File: nyp.00072.xml (TEI)

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Overwritten	brown with strikethrough

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The tracing of the divisions, parentage, and localities of races,—as whence they sprang, and what are their typical marks

under this come all of what are called governments, laws, human rights, and the like.—

list of names of all animals