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MAN AND HIS MIGRATIONS.
CORRESPONDING MEMBER TO THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, NEW YORK,
ETC. ETC.
LONDON:
JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDCCCLI.
PRINTED BY RICHARD TAYLOR,
RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.
PREFACE.
The following pages represent a Course of Six Lectures delivered atthe Mechanics’ Institution, Liverpool, in the month of March of thepresent year; the matter being now laid before the public in a somewhatfuller and more systematic form than was compatible with the originaldelivery.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.Page
The Natural or Physical history of Man—theCivil—their difference—divisions of the Natural orPhysical history—Anthropology—Ethnology—howfar pursued by the ancients—Herodotus—how far by themoderns—Buffon—Linnæus—Daubenton—Camper—Blumenbach—theterm Caucasian—Cuvier—Philologyas an instrument of ethnologicalinvestigation—Pigafetta—Hervas—Leibnitz—Reland—Adelung—Klaproth—theunion of Philology and of Anatomy—Prichard—itsPalæontological character—influence of Lyell’s Geology—ofWhewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences1–36
Ethnology—its objects—the chiefproblems connected with it—prospective questions—transferof populations—Extract from Knox—correlation of certainparts of the body to certain external influences—parts lesssubject to such influences—retrospective questions—theunity or non-unity of our species—opinions—