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RACES AND PEOPLES
LECTURES
ON THE
SCIENCE OF ETHNOGRAPHY
BY
DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D.,
Professor of Ethnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia,
and of American Archæology and Linguistics in the University of Pennsylvania;
President of the American Folk-Lore Society and of the
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia; Member
of the Anthropological Societies of Berlin and Vienna and of
the Ethnographical Societies of Paris and Florence, of
the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Copenhagen, the
Royal Academy of History of Madrid, the
American Philosophical Society, the
American Antiquarian Society,
Etc., Etc., Etc.PHILADELPHIA
DAVID McKAY, Publisher
1901

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Copyright
By D. G. Brinton.
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TO
HORATIO HALE,
PHILOLOGIST TO THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING
EXPEDITION IN 1838-42,
WHOSE MANY AND VALUABLE
CONTRIBUTIONS TO LINGUISTICS AND ETHNOGRAPHY
PLACE HIM TO-DAY AMONG THE FOREMOST AUTHORITIES
ON THESE SCIENCES,
THIS VOLUME
IS INSCRIBED IN RESPECT AND FRIENDSHIP
BY THE AUTHOR.
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PREFACE.

The lectures which appear in this volume were deliveredat the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia,in the early months of 1890. They have since been writtenout, and references added in the foot-notes to a numberof works and articles, which will enable the student topursue his readings on any point in which he may be interested.My endeavor has been to present the results ofthe latest and most accurate researches on the subjectstreated; though no one can be better aware than myselfthat in compressing such an extensive science into solimited a space, I have often necessarily been superficial.It is some excuse for the publication, if one is needed,that I am not aware of any other recent work upon thisscience written in the English language.

Philadelphia, August, 1890.

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CONTENTS.