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Show 34G TilE CRANIAL CIIARAC'l'ERIS'l'ICS forms, but also to exhibit a few of those inferior typos through which tho human family, in obedience to a grand and deeply underlying law of organic unity, seeks to connect itself with tho groat animal series of which it is the undoubted bead and front. Fig. 82. TAa~.rANIAN, from We ~ torn Coast of Van Diemen's Land. (Royal College of Surgeons, London.) Fig. 84. TARMANIAN (Pricharu's ltcseo.rchcs). Fig. 86. N111w GutNJJAN (Dumoutier's AtlM). Fig. 88. TAB~!ANIAN (Dumoutio1·'s Atlas). Fig. 85. TASMANIAN (Dumouticr's Ath1s). Fig. 87. ALFOUROU-ENDAMI~N·l (Mo.t·tin's Man o.ud Monkeys). OF TilE RACES OF MEN. 347 IIm·o our rnpi<l panoramic survey of tho diversified cranial charactcri tics of tho llllman family must tct·miuatc. In this su rvey, having no thcol'y to ostauli ~h or defend, I have carefully and impartially presented tl10 facts as I have found them, for the most part, iudelibly traced upon tlJC specimens in tho vast Mortouian Collection. Nor have I d pendo i upon this Collection alone, as will appear from the frequent references to and quotations from the more impQrtant of the numerous works which constitute the literature of my subj ect. Tbil:l method has been adopted, as aflording the best idea of the past history, progress, and present condition of craniographic research, and its claims to be considered as one of the natural sciences. By such a procedure, moreover, the reader has gradually be orne acquainted, as it were, with the zealous and ind fatigable workers in this field, whoso names are intimately associated with many of tho facts disen~ ·ed in this essay. Feelings of professional pride prompt me, in this place, to refer particularly to two of these laborers, who, witlt cal'cful hands, have materially assisted in building au Ethnologic edifice, whoso fitir proportions will yet delight and astonish tho world. 'l'he research s of PmcnAnD and Mon1'0N constitute right noble columns guarding tho ontl'anco into this edifice. Recognizing, at an early period of their proicssioual cm·cor, tho scientific claims of medicine-claims seldom perceived by tho mass-their expansive minds l d them steadily onward, beyond the crowded middle-walks of their calling. Both were physicians, in the }Jdmitivo sense of tho word-medical naturalists, whose broad and comprehensive views shed a lustre over tho healing art. Thoro is a singular propriety in thus coupling tho labors and lives of thcs two philosoph rs. Their patient, unresting industry and strong determinative will enabled them to provo conclusively to the world, as indeed Hunter and others bad already dono, that, to a considerable extent, scientific investigation is not only compatible with tho activo daily duties of tbe physician, but in reality, by inculcating close and accurat habits of observation, very often becomes a guarantee of sncc ss in tho performance of those duties. As confirmatory of this, h ar what their respective biographers have said of thorn: "Dr. Prichard applied himself;" says Dr. IIodgkin, "with as mLlch zeal to tho practice, as he had clone to tho study of bis profc sion. He ostablisbcd a <.]jspcnsary. lie became physician to some of tho principal medical institutions of Bristol. He ltad not only a large p1·actice in Ms own neigl!borhood, but was often called to distant consultations. Notwithstanding the engrossing natme of these occupation , he found time to prepare and deliver lectures |
