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Show GlO DISTINCTIONS OBSERVABLE AllfONG plan: but I supposed that Elll'opoan libraries might easily ma~co up tho deficiency. Procuring a largo skeleton chart, and colol'lng 1t into zoological realms and fhunro, I made a pr~lirninary li st. of about 150 human families whose likcneFJses were desu·able. Then· names, written on difl:crently-colot·cd pieces of paper, an inch square, were then pasted upon this map, each one in its g ographical lo?ality, to stand as mnemonics for the portraits to be afterwards mscrted. 'J.'hrongh the politeness of the late M. Ducos, Minister for Naval Afril.it·s tho choice library of tho Ministcro do la Marine, together with tl;e vast repository of the Depot de la Marino, were fi·eely opened to my visits; and here, l3A.J01'r& in hand, my bibliographical explorations commenced. The BibliotM-ques ~mpb·iale, de l'Inst~tut, and d·u Jardin des Plantes, were equally accosstbl through tho kmdncss of friends, during eight months' stay at Paris; and, for eight m.onths subsequently, I r sumcd my old soat in that paradise of a bibliophiles, owing to tho incomparable facilities readers .obtain thet'c, the Briti.9lt Museum Lib1·a1·y. Altogether I worked m the midst of such resources for about twelve months of time,- always aided, when necessary, by my Wife's enthusiastic help- guided throughout by considerate indices from distinguished savan~; during which period thousands of volumes were subjected to serutmy, hund1 ·eds yielding materials eiLhcr for my wife's pencil or my own notebooks. In fact, no literary means were lacking for the attainment of my object; no efforts spared towards realizing it. Having, in consequence, acquired practical knowledge of the probable range of cthnograr hie materials acoumu lated at the present day, I can now speak of their deficiencies with more confidence. Alas ! they are great indeed! It was not long, however, before my casting about, at Paris, ended in tho renunciation of an ethnographic map of the nature above sketched; owing to the frequency of lacunm, impossible to be filled up, in tho pictorial gradations of humanity spr ad over tho earth. Inaccurate designs of many races, false colorations of most, unauthentic exceptions to exactness throughout the remainder, reduced the number of reliable portraits to a very small number in publisl10d works. To the ethnographer some otherwise valuable books, perfect as to costumes of nations, arc wholly unavailable1,s:1 as regards facial 118~ Catalogue particulier des Livre,, de G~ographie el de Voyages qui se trouvent da11s lcs Bibliotlt~qttrs du Department de la Afarine el des Colonies; Paris, Tmprim6rio Roy11lo, 8vo, 184 0 ; vol. III. 1183 uoh, for instance, ns Georgi'a Bcschreibutlg allcr Nationum de8 R.tmicflen Reiclt8, St. :Potcrshnrg, 1776; nlso rcpubli~h d in smnllor edition nt Leipzig. 1788; nne! in four vols. London, without plntoa, 1780:- ltBOKun tmo, Le8 Peuplca de la Russie, &o., with 04 ph~tes VARIOUS GROUPS OF ITUllfANITY. 611 i~ono~raphy,- the Artists, naturally ignorant of physiognomical dtvcrs1ty b yond the small ci rcle of races within their personal cognizancos, having given Eu1·opean features to every variety of man; so that, according to each designer's country, all natio11s aro made to assume Frenclt, English, or German faces; often with as little regard to foreign human nature as we find in 'l'ailors' or Modistes' show-plates of the newest fashions! omc of tho best descriptive works contain plates too small for rc1iance; in general ~ncolorcd, or else tinted without regard to exactness; at tho same t1.me tl1at of whole families of mankind thoro arc no representations whatever. It is, in fact, rare to meet with colored plates of races worthy of confidence, before the bcgi nning of this century: not that I would disparage the efforts made by Cook, J~a P6rousc, Krusonstcrn, and other voyagers, to fnrnish good copper-plates of several diHtant tribes of men met with in their daring circumnavigations. But tho man essentially imbued with a sort of instinctive presentiment of tho importance of human iconography, and to whoso single pencil we still owe more varicclrcprcscntations of mankind over tho a.rth than to any individual before or since, without question was Cuoms.li84 Chosen artist to the second Ru sian voyage ronnel the world under Ottoe von Kotzebue in the "Rnrick" 68s-1815-18- favorcd by a liberal and scientiftc commander, and aided by a skilful naturalist, Ad lbcl't de Chami so, Chori really availed himself of glorious opportunities (so frcqu ntly deemed unimportant in later maritime expeditioHs, -compared to the tl'iumphant coll ection of "new species" among oysters, butterflies, or parsleys), and may bo rightfully styled the futbcr of those ethnological portrait-painters who, like L u ur, have so skilfully illustrated tho voyaO' s of Peron (under Daudin) Dupcrrcy, De Froycinct, D'Urvillc, Gaimard, and others. It is to Choris's, more than to any other man's labors, that tho works of I richard, and Cuvicr, as the learned copyists frequently point out, owe their iconographic interest: and here it may be conveniently stated that, in our Tableau, I have endeavored, as far as possible, to of costumes. Mnny other wot·l a, oqunlly defective otltnogmphienlly, if oxoollent for nntion( l! costtllnos, nt·o in tlto "King's Libmry," JJt'iti sh Museum. liven som works of tho gront Froncl1 Nn.vigntors- such ns D'EN1'ttEOAS1'1lAHX, 1800; D~1 .UouoAJNVII.r.~:. 1887; LA PI.AOFJ, 1836; lJu Pl!'J'IT 1'11 UA ns, 1841- (lro nlmost vttluoloss to humnu iconogmphy, bowovot· meritorious and important in descriptions, (Inc! procious in other bmuchcs of nMurn,l his tory. 6&1. Voyage Pittoresque m1tour du .Afonde, avec des Portraits de Sauvages d'Amt.·ique, d'Asie, d'Afrique, et deslle.• du Gra11d Ocean; P11l'i8, lJidot, folio, 1822. Of t his work 1 hnvo used four copies nt diiforont libml'ios, two of thorn uncolored; nnd, as regards tho colorntion of tho othct· two, one varied mntorially from tho other in tint~. 686 Voyage of discove1·y into tlte South Sea, &c., trnnsl. Lloyd, London, 8 vols. 8vo., 1821, |
