have neither consulted anybody as to the subjects upon which I
proposed to treat, nor has any one seen the “ revises” until the
plates were stereotyped. Consequently, for whatever I may have
written, with a free pen and open utterance, no person but myself is
responsible.
If the reader will complaisantly bear in mind that the Chapters,
severally chosen by my colleague D r . H o t t , and our collaborators,
had already covered a vast range of “ Ethnological Inquiry, ”-^upon
which, whether acquainted with the themes or not, delicacy forbade
my trenching—he will perceive the reason why, under the caption
of “ the Monogenists and the Polygenists,” I have endeavored to
fill up some gaps in what I deem to be ethnographical desiderata.
Such as these facts or deductions of my own may be, I submit them
unreservedly to public criticism; at the same time that, although not
advanced with indifference to either, they must take their chance,
without courting approbation, or deprecating blame.
G. R. G.
P h il a d e l ph ia , 20th Feb., 1857.
C O N T E N T S .
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PREFATORY REMARKS — by Geo. R. Gl id do n................................................................... vii
LETTER FROM LIEUT. A. W. HABERSHAM, U. S. N., (w ith 1 wood-cut) . , viii
LETTER FROM PROF. L. AGASSIZ....................................... x iii
LETTER FROM PROF. JOSEPH LEIDY....................................................................... xvi
Ch ap . I. — On th^ D istribution an d Classification of T ongues, — their relation
to the Geographical D istribution of R a c e s ; a n d on the
INDUCTIONS W H IC H MAT BE D R /.W N FROM THESE RELATIONS — BY
A lfred Ma u r y ................................................ 2 5
XI. —- IcONOGRAPHIC- RESEARCHES ON HUMAN RACES AND THEIR ART BY
F rancis P ulszky, (with 9 8 wood-cuts and I X lithographic Plates,
3 colored) ........................................................................................................ 67
I I I . — T he Cra nia l Characteristics of the R aces of Men — b y J. A itken
M e ig s , (with 87 wood-cuts.)........................................................................................... 2 0 3
I V . A c c l im a t io n ; o r , t h e c om p a r a t iv e in f l u e n c e o f C lim a t e , E n d em ic
a n d E pidemic D iseases, on the R aces of Men — by J. C. N ott . . . 3 5 3
V . t He M o n o g e n is t s a n d t h e P o l y g e n i s t s ; b e in g a n e x p o s it io n o f t h e
doctrines of schools professing to su stain dogmatically the
U n it y or the D iv ersity of H uman R aces ; with an in qu ir y into
the A ntiquity of Ma n k in d upon E arth, viewed Chronologically,
H istorically an d P aleontologically — b y Geo. R . Gliddon,
(with 4 woodrcuts.)........................................................ 402
V I . S e c t io n I. — C om m en ta ry u p on t h e p r in c i p a l d i s t in c t io n s o b s e r v a
b l e among THE V a r io u s G r o u p s o f H um a n ity— (with a tinted lithographic
Tableau containing 5 4 human p o rtra its.)............................................ 6 0 3
S ection II. — On the Geographical D istribution of the S im ie in
relation to that of some in fer io r Types of Men (with a tinted
Map containing 5 4 Monkeys and 6 human portraits) — by Geo. R.
G l id d o n ......................- .................................................................... 6 3 8
(xxiii)