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Show vi PUDLISIIERS' ANNOUNCEMENT. It is to this practical consideration alone that we appeal, should criticism allege that any of the mechanical part of this work might have been more skilfully executed. Had the price been higher, the performance would as1mredly have been superior In justice to the labors of the Authors and the Contributors, we will state, that no monetary compensation is equal to the pains bestowed by each upon his part; and several of the above have kindly furnished their quota without the remotest pecuniary object; at the same time, let it be noted, that the accomplished lady to whose single pencil four-fifths of the entire series of illustrations herein contained are due, spontarneously volunteered, and for two years has employed it, in behalf of her husband's literary interests. Asi<le, also, from the communications made by Professors JosEPH LEIDY and L. AGASSrz, as well as by LIEUT. llADERSIIAM, U. S. N., the reader will find in this volume severo.l ite!l),s of novelty,- altogether uncontemplated by us when the first P1·ospectus was issued last autumn. Among these may be mentioned the inedited Eslcimo-cmnium derived from the late Dn. KANE's first Arctic Expedition, and the equn.lly inedited 1bhuJctclti-cmnium and po'rtmit presented by Mn. E. M. KERN,- artist in the recent North Pacific Expedition of the "Vincennes," under Captain Rodgers, U.S.N. We hope, therefore, that every Subscriber will feel satisfie\l that we have fully redeemed our engagements in the premises. J. B. LIPPINOOT'l' & Co., Publisl1ers. :PREFATORY REMARKS. DY OEO. R. OLIDDON. TnE title of the present volumc,-"TnJigcnous Races of tho Earth," as well as that of ou.r former work,-"Typcs of Mankind," arc dnc to roy colleague. . .. DR. No·.er po scsscs, beyond most men, the faculty of cpitom1z1ng the gist of an argument in the fewest words. It is on that account, and more especially for tho disappointment r a<lcrs may feel upon :finding my name substituted for my collcagt:c's, in this p~rt of our joint book, that its opening page mu~t co~tmn ~n cxprcss1on of my regret at the only untoward event wh1cb, from f1rst to last, hal:! been encountered in tho literary undertaking now brought favorably to an end. Being unavoidable, however, such issue-unforeseen but a few days ao-o-requircs some brief explanation. On ~1y return fi'om Europe last May, M. ALFRED MAURY's ~laHuscript for Chapter I. ·was the only part of thit> book i.1: a st~te of completion. Mn. FRANOIS I UJ. zKY',, for Ohaptel' ~., anwed 111 cot~sec.ntivc po1tions by the mails from London; Dn .• J. ArnmN 1Y!HI<IS s, for Chapter III., and mine for Chapters V. and VI., were '~nttcn here, during the past summer an<l autumn; while .Dn. No'l'1', m the same int rval, prepared. his ior Chapter IV. at M~b1lc. . It having been deemed inexpedient to lllCUl'.thc nsks of loss of these manuscripts by sending them hence to Mob1le, Dn. NoTT, except tl1rough pl'ivatc corrcRpondencc and my or~l rcpo1·~ to hi~n H ch z ]ni" la t November, was noces~mrily unacquamtcd w1th then· several tenor: but, when receiving ft·om his hands tlte maHut>cript for Chap- < vii) |
