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Title: Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873 Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 Usher, W Patterson, Henry S. (Henry Stuart), 1815-1854 Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857
Subjects: Anthropology Continental Population Groups Religion and Science
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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FRICAN REALM—inhabited by NUBIANS, ABYSSINIANS, FOOLAHS, NE-GROES, HOTTENTOTS, BOSJESMANS;and divided into: —aa — a Saharan fauna.66 — a Nubian fauna. cc — an Abyssinian fauna (extending to Arabia).dd— a Senegalian fauna.ee — a Ouinean fauna.ff— an Afric-Table-land fauna.gg — a Cape-of-Good-Hbpe fauna.fih — a Madagascar (diverging) fauna. VI. —EAST-INDIAN (or MALAYAN) R E A LM —inhabited by TELINGANS, MALAYS, NEGRILLOS; and divided into: —ii — a Dukhun fauna.jj— an Indo-Chinese fauna.kk — a Sunda-Islandic fauna (including Borneo and the Philippines) VII. —AUSTRALIAN REALM —inhabited by PAPUANS, AUSTRALIANS; and divided into: —11 — a Papuan fauna.mm — a New-Holland fauna. VIM.--POLYNESIAN R E A LM— inhabited by SOUTH-SEA ISLANDERS; and containing: — nn, nn — Polynesian faunae. N U It has not been in my power to follow Prof. Agassizs instructions in regard to the coloring of thiaa.ap. the scale adopted being too small.—G. R. G. (lxxviii)
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TYPES OF MANKIND. INTRODUCTION. Mr. Luke Burke, the bold and able Editor of the London Ethno-logical Journal, defines Ethnology to be a science which investigatesthe mental and physical differences of Mankind, and the organic lawsupon which they depend; and which seeks to deduce from theseinvestigations, principles of human guidance, in all the importantrelations of social existence. To the same author are we indebtednot only for the most extensive and lucid definition of this term,but for the first truly philosophic view of a new and important sciencethat we have met with in the English language. The term Ethnology has generally been used as synonymouswith Ethnography, understood as the Natural History of Man; butby Burke it is made to take a far more comprehensive grasp — toinclude the whole mental and physical history of the various Typesof Mankind, as well as their social relations and adaptations; and,under this comprehensive aspect, it therefore interests equally thephilanthro

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