Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind: Introduction. On the origin and dispersion of organized beings. Considerations relative to the question, whether the various races of men are of one or several species. 3d ed. 1836Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, Paternoster Row, 1836 |
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Africa albinos Alfourous America analogous animals appear argali Asia belonging Blumenbach bones breeds Bushmen Candolle catamenia character circumstances climate coast colour complexion continent countries crania cranium Cuvier described different races disease dispersion display distinct distinguished diversity Esquimaux Europe European existence eyes facial angle fact female frontal bone genera greater Greenlanders Guinea habits hair head Holland Hottentots human races hundred hybrid Indian individuals inhabitants inquiry instances islands Kalmuks kind known less Lesson likewise Linnæus mankind marsupial Moluccas Mongoles nations natives naturalists nature nearly Negro skulls northern observed ocean organized original Pallas Papuas particular peculiar pelvis phenomena physical plants prognathous quadrupeds races racter region relation remarkable resemblance respect Rudolphi says seeds sheep simiæ similar skin skull Soemmerring South South America southern ocean species structure supposed termed Terra Australis tion tribes Turanian ubi supra vegetation woolly writers zygomatic arches
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Sivu 182 - Kajarnak, and he stepped up to the table, and said, with a loud, earnest, and affecting voice, ' How was that ? tell me that once more ; for I would fain be saved too...
Sivu 337 - The whole difference between the cranium of a negro and that of a European is in no respect greater than that which exists between the cranium of the wild boar and that of the domestic swine.
Sivu 208 - Colour, tho' not in that only. Their Skins are not of such a White as those of fair People among Europeans, with some tincture of a Blush or Sanguine Complexion...
Sivu 196 - ... to mean that the spirit of the deceased Governor had entered into one of the House pets. It was difficult to fix on a particular one, and it was therefore decided that every cat passing...
Sivu 354 - ... him the right buttock and thigh, which were as black as the father, and reconciled him immediately to both mother and child. I was informed of the fact, and went to the place, where I examined the child, and found it true. This was in the spring of the year, 1747, as my notes specify.
Sivu 15 - and perhaps in a greater degree," adds Dr. Prichard, " from that of Africa." A much greater recession is, however, observed in both the botany and zoology of Australia. There " we do not find, in the great masses of vegetation, either the majesty of the virgin forests of America, or the variety and elegance of those of Asia, or the delicacy and freshness of the woods of our temperate countries of Europe. The vegetation is generally gloomy and sad; it has the aspect of our evergreens or heaths; the...
Sivu 344 - It is well known that the king of Prussia had a corps of gigantic guards, consisting of the tallest men who could be drawn together from all quarters. A regiment of these huge men was stationed during fifty years at Potsdam. ' A great number of the present inhabitants of that place,' says Forster, ' are of very higb stature, which is more especially striking in the numerous gigantic figures of women.
Sivu 319 - the arms of about fifty Negroes, men, women, and children, born in very different climes, and found the lower arm longer than in Europeans, in proportion to the upper arm and height of the body.
Sivu 117 - She had been united in marriage for ninety years to an Indian of the name of Andrea Alea Zar, who attained the age of one hundred and seventeen. This old Peruvian went, at the age of one hundred and thirty, a distance of from three to four leagues daily on foot.
Sivu 209 - ... into the sea, for which reason they resolved to return. Just as they had formed this resolution, one of the natives offered them refreshment, which they accepted. They found this man to be of a kind that has been described by various authors, as mixed with many nations, but distinct from them all. His skin was of a dead white, without the least appearance of what is called complexion, though some parts of his body were in a small degree less white than others : his hair, eye-brows, and beard,...