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Show I I 278 TilE CH.ANIAL CIIARACTEHIS'I'lCS pari6taux am· Ia !igno m6di~tno. Obsorv6 par dovant, on voit clniromont, quo srtns nffoctor la forme vraimont pymmidt\IO propro nux Polyn6sicns ot un pon nux Mnlayo-Polyn6~i cns, il so rotr6oit gmduollomont vo•·s lo sommot. Vu do profit, lo front so monh·o on g6n6ml o.sscr. l'Ojol6 on arricro. Lo mnxillniro sup6riom· ost assoz 6troit ot nssoz o.llong6; lo m~txillt\ire inf61'iou1· ost 6galomont 6troit, compr\raUvomont au d6voloppcmont dolt\ portion ~up6riouru do Ill. t6to. Los os ml\xillld•·os Hont asso r. pro6mincnts commo on pout s'on rondt·c compte ais6mont on consid6•·ant uuo tllto tlo Chinois par lo profil. La region occipitalo s'6tond pou on flrricro. Ccs Oll.raotc•·os so voiont nottcmont clans los totes ropr6scnt6os pnt· M. Dumoutior, ot nons los ll.vons ,·otrouv6s U!\HS plusiours sujots qui existent dll.ns ln collection nntht·opologiquo du Mus6um d'histoiro nl\tur·ollo do Pr1ris. "Si nons oompru·ons cos tlltos do Chiuois avoo cellos des l1abitnnts des Philippincs,JM los difi'6ronces sont bien pn.!pr\hles, et pourtnnt il y ll. uno gmndo annlogi.o dnns In forme g6n6rnlo, dona le contour coronlll obsorv6 par dovn.nt. Ln face, ohez lcs Clrinois, osl l>onucoup plus nllong6e; lo fr·ont, vu do prolil, ost moius oblique, co qui donne u6cc~snircmont plus d'tunplour i\ In pu1·lio nnt61·o-Hup6riouro do la Hlto; los os IDil~illail·os aont nussi so nsiblcmont moins 1\vll.nc~s; do lu un 1mglo fncinl un peu plus ouvcrt. En lin, dllns to us los oM, Ia pn.rtio post(h·iome do Ill. Hlto oat un pou moins allong6o. "Do cos frtits il rcsulto que lt\ tate dos Chinois, trll s-nm1loguo sous bien des mpports u oollo dos Mlllf\i~, en clill' ·ro tl'uno fn9on notable ot so mpprocho d'nutant dn typo cnrop6on. Mrds lor~q'o11 viont ilmcttro on pr6sonco loa cri\uos do Chinois ot d'Europ6ons, c'cst uno diff6ronoo bien nutronrrnt inrportnutc qui so mnnifcsto dovnnt des ;youx oxot·c6~ il. co gouro d'6tudo. Un nntumlistc do h1 Tlollnndo, M. VANillm Il<IlnJN, 1\ doju indiquo plusiou,·~ diffo•·enoos dans les proportions du orllne.II!G Chez lo Chinois, Ia faco oat plus longue que ohoz l'.Europ6cn,1 G 1 l'u uglo l'rtoil\1 est bien moins ouvol'l, lo ooronnl t16prim 6, so.uf uno li gno oourbo presque r6gulillr·o do Ia base 1\U sommot, tondis quo ul\ns lr\ Hlte do l'Europ6on, lu front est presque droit ot fo1·mo prosquo uu condo 1\U souunot, pom· allor rojoiudro lcs pnri6tt\UX; tout celn, anna douto, avco des nul\ncos bien prouono6os, mnis co qui n'cn est pll.S moine onoore tr~s-1mwqu6, qunnd on compare dos Ultcs d'hommos do mcos aussi di1f6ron toe. "En mettnnt on pr6sonoo des totes do Chinois ot d'hommos do t·nco s6mitique, il y a un peu plus do mpport, plus do r11pport surtout dnns II\ longucu1· do Ill. fMo. Clroz los Juifs, los Arnbos, cto., oopondant, si lo frontn.l oat plus rojot6 on ttrricro quo olrcz los l~urop6ous, qullnd on le oonsid1n·e par dovant, on voit qu'il rosto largo au sommot, r\u lieu do so r6tr6cir oommo chor. los Chinois. Dnns los ((\tes do Clnnois, los os nnsnux sont moins snillants, los 08 maxillo.irt>s sont plus pro6minonts, In piU'tio post6riouro de lo. til to est moins oblonguc. "Enfin los Chinois, d'apr~s to us los cnmctcros nuthropologiquos quo nons pouvons observer, so montrent dnns II' genre bumain commc un type bion cnmct6ris6 ot commo un typo inf6riour nux moos ourop6onnos ct 86mitiquos, ainei quo cola r6sulto d'un nnglo fn.oit\l moius ouvort, d'uoo amplour moins grr\nuo do lll. portion nut6ro-aup6ricuro do ]a tote, ot d'uno snillio plus oonsidoml>los dos os mnxillniros. Or oommo il u'ost pas doutoux que l'nmplour de Ia pnrtio 11nt6ro-sup6riouro do Ill. toto no soit un indico do sup61'iorit6, otto d6voloppomont des os maxillniros un indioe d'iuferiorite, l'ttnthropologiHto doit olt1ssor Jn rnoo obinoise oornmo inforiouro n.ux moos do ]'.Europe et do I'OI'iont. J./6tutlo do l'histoire dos moours, dos r6wltnts intollootucls do cos pouj)los conduit absolumout a In ml}m~ olassifiontion." 168 The Japanese arc generally considered as bolonginO' to tho sam~ typo as the Chin s . Tho collection contains but one Japanese skull, presented by Dr. A. M. LYNCH, U. . N: 'l'ho appearance of JM 1'1. 40 of Dumouti r'~ Atln.s. 11!6 Annalcs des Sciences naturcllos, 2• s6rio. m Dumouticr's Atlas, pl. 26, bi8. 168 Op. cit., pp. 228-84. OF TIIE RACES OF MEN. this cranium docs not exactly comport ·with the above statement. Knowing nothing of its history, and having no other for comparison, I simply annex a representation of it without further commcnt.100 These observations, in tho aggregate, conflict with the opinion of PnrciiAllD,- an opinion sustained by many others-that "tho Chinese, and tho Koreans, and the Fig. 19. JAPANESiil. 270 Japan esc belong to the same tJ-po of tho human species as the nations of High Asia." He explains away tho evident diHoronccA by a certain softening and mitigation of tho Mongolian traits. LA'rHAM also calls tho Chinese a" Mongol sofLcno<l down." uch expressions arc unfottunate; they load to misconceptions wlticl1 often seriously retard tl1o progress of scionco, particularly iLk! dlf~ fusion among tho masscs.1GO The Indo-Chinese nations, including the Mantchurian 'J'unguA, Ol' those south of tho Alden, should be regarded as a distinct but eloscly allied type, a typo bearing certain resemblances to the pyramidal form on the one hand, and tho globular on tho other, but positively separated ii·om those two by certain slight but apparently constant ditl:orcnces. 'l'hc Koreans, judging from tho description of SmnoLD, exhibit the same type. "L'cnscmblc de lours traits porto, on g6n6ral, lo 011mctcro de Ill. mco Mongolo; Ia largour ot Ia rudosso do In figure, Ia pro6minonco doe pommottos, lo d()vcloppemcot dos maohoil·o~. JGD "Los Jnponnis," s11ys D'IIALLOY, "ont on gen6rnl los enrll.otcrcs mongoliques moinM prononc6os quo los ChinoiM, co quo !'on Bttribuo i\ uu m61ango nvco d'auh·es pouplc, poutlitre des Kourilicns, qui nurniont habit6 lo pll.ys 1\VI\nt oux." Op. cit., p. 124. too Upon p. 286 of his Nat. Ifist. of Afau, PRtOI!AilO gives a prolilo view of n Chinoso omnium, wl,ioh, he says, "1\ppoo.rs to differ but little from tho European." Now if n.ny one, at nll fumilill.r with European skull-forms, will tnko tho trouble to inspect tho flguro in question, he will at onoo perceive how cnoncous is tho above atutomcnt. Every on•·oful crnniogmphor must objoot to such loose remt~rks. Agt\in, upon tho tbit·d and fourth pln.tos of his work, ho oompat·es togothot· the cmnin of a Congo nogr·o, n Chotirnnoho Indinn of Loni sir\un, and 1\ Chinese of Canton, and fJ'om tho manifest resemblances between thorn, he ,·onturos to assort thnt tho chn.motot·istics of those widoly-scpnmted rnccs cnnnot bo relied upon as spcoilio. In tho Mol'!onirw collection, 80 numerously roprcscntod in American and Afric11ll skulls, and contuining twolvo Cbinoso crania, also, I cannot find a pnmllol instnnoo of this similo.rity. I nm fo1·ccd to conclude, therefore, either t!rnt Dr. P. wns miAtnkcn as to tho som·cos of these skull s, or thn.t wo should rognrd their similn.rity ns one of those exooptionn.l or· nberrnut oxo.mplos, which occasionnlly arise to puzzle tho omniosoopist in the present unsotllod state of tho sciouoe. |