Bastian, Adolf, an eminent ethnologist, born at Bremen; travelled over and surveyed, in the interest of his science, all quarters of the globe, and recorded the fruits of his survey in his numerous works, no fewer than thirty in number, beginning with “Der Mensch in der Geschichte,” in three vols.; conducts, along with Virchow and R. Hartman, the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie; (b. 1826).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Basti`a * Bastian, Dr. H. C.