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Show 54.8 1' II E ~f 0 N 0 GENIS T S AND logics and dissimilitud s, between an inferior type of mankind ancl a superior typo of monkey, require no comment. A. n. 1.'/trec-quarter view of ano/lter Algerins nogro" Diskroo." 416 c. Fro11t view of our Saltarra11-negro. Compure his tinto.d profile in No. 26 of our "Ethnogrnphio Tnbloo.u,"-from D. do St. V.'s pinto. D. Gorilla-Gina, Is. Geoff. Troglodytea-Tshego,Duv. ('l'hrce-quartor view.) 41a So.mo o.nimo.l. (Front view.) m Galtrie Royale de Oo8tumu, folio, colored, Paris (Aubert & C••., Place do In Bourse, No. 29); "Porteur il. Alger," Pl. 16. 416 Annales de& Science~ Na/u~clle&, 3m• s6rio, Zoologie, P~tris, 1861; xvi. Pl. VII., figs. 1, 8; and pp. 164-02.- Cf. also. DuVERNOY, Oomptea rendua de l' A cad. de& Scicuces, 1853; :xxxvi. pp. 924- SG. TilE POLYGENISTS. F.ig. B-as above stated, is the ft'Ont view of the "Saharran Negro" of whom our Tableau, No. 26, gives the profile. The color of the original is a livid tawny black, chiefly due to drainage of blood after decapitation; for it was d!·awn on the field of the skirmish. By comparison with the profile, its Simian expression will be the bettor perceived. Fig. A-has no history, beyond the reference that his name was "Bit~kry," and that he happened to be a "Porter at Algiers:" but nomenclature identifies the route by which he, or his progenitors, reached .A lgcria, in the Oasis of Bislcm.417 I infer tLat this was his nick-name (soubriquet); because, in Arabic as in IIebrcw,418 the suffix Y.B, ee (iod), to a geographical appellative indicates the "being of," or, "belonging to" a locality; so that our Brsimi1:E, from Biskra, means in English the Bislcr-ian. Hence we learn the road of his transit over the Sahara. In tho original plato tho color of his skin is a blackiAh-rcd brown; and we know that almost every shade, from a dirty yellow to a full ebony, is to be met with among aborigines of Africa-on which hereinafter. I have purposely chosen this sample, vvhich is wholly independent of Bory do St. Vincent's, to substantiate the existence of such particular types in N orth-wcstcrn Africa. Thirty-three years have passed since, as a boy, I saw tho bronze "Mori" (Moors) in tho Arsenal of Leghorn. I staud corrected if this man is not one of the same types. Figs. C and D-are front and profile heads of the specimen, as yet unique, of a perfect adult Gorilla; which, preserved in spirits, was sent to the Parisian Museum d' Ilistoire Naturelle, in 1852, from the Gaboon River, by Dr. Franquct. If hypercriticism 419 should object to renewed selection of extreme@' m PmssE u' An:NN~:R's Revue Orientale et Alglrie1me, Paris, 8vo., 1852; i.-PnAx, "Communicntions entre l'Aig6ric ot Jo S6n6gal,"pp. 276-05, and Map:-nlso CAIIIPMAS, "Oasis do lliskm ;" pp. 29G-803. m 'J:ype& of Afanki11d, pp. 631-2. 410 'l'lto London AthmaJitnl (June 17, 1854.), in reviewing our lnst work, did not like tho contt·asts affordod by plncing tho Apollo llolvidi'1'0, an Africnn negro, and n Chimpanzee, on tho snmo plato. It was ehown in tho next number (Atllcnwum, June 24), that they wore copied from tho accurate designs of an English artist-" William Ifnrvoy, tho pupil of Bewick." •20 LuKM DunKM (Eth11olog'ical .Tournal, London, Now Series, No. 1, Jnn. ]854; p. 88) happily says-" 'l'ho best means of treating man properly is to trent him as wo do tho most clonrly-dcfinod portions of goncml zoology. Should we not, for instnnco, bettor promote our knowledge of tho dog, by cnrefully noting tho most nbcrrnnt of his forms, thnn by nny selection of average skulls? And why should it not bo so with man nlso? We would, thoroforo, to.ko tho liberty of suggesting to nil ongngod in pursuits of this kind, thnt tho best modo of' consulting tho interests of scionoo is to think loss of nvcrngcs nnJ more o~ individualities." |