French physician and anthropologist (1824-1880) who discovered the seat of motor control of speech in the brain. ALS in French, signed “Broca,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris letterhead, January 17, 1867. An untranslated handwritten letter to a colleague mentioning George Folsom and George Squier of the American Ethnological Society in New York. In very good to fine condition, with creasing to the upper right corner, and scattered staining and light foxing.
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