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Show Gl8 EXPLANATIONS OF TIIE TADLEAU. ON TilE E'l'IINOGRAPIIIO 'l'ABLEA U, JIXUIDlTlNQ SPECIMENS OF VARIOUS RACES OF MANKIND. ADOPTING entirely, for my own part, Prof. Agassiz's zooloo-ical distribution of animals into REALMS,-subdivided into .li'auna1-I had pr par d prefatory observations on each of Lhc form r, which lack of space now ol>ligcs roo to reduce to a miuimum consistent with perspicacity. So many l1ave been the mistakes committed (even by good scholars), as regards tho honored I rofcssor's meaning, in tho terms "Realms" and" l! aunro," 697 that thor adcr's attention i again c pccially invited to Lhc" ketch of the Natural .Provinces of tho Animal ·wol'ld, and their r laiion to the difl'cr nt Types of Man;" which, wi.Lh its tableau and map, forms a prominent feature in Nott's and my Types of ll:lankind. It is upon such inferred knowledge, on the reader's part, tlutt our "Etl111ographic Tableau" has been vrojcctcd. Tho first column of lettcr-pr ss contains I ROl!'. AoAssrz's "Gcoo-raphical disLrlbuLion :"tho s cond D1t. Mmas's "Oranioscor ic examples:"- ihc Lhit·d my 607 1. A. D'AIIJJAlJIH (Observations sur l'Ouvrage intituld: T'!fpea of Afanlcind, par Nil!. Noll and Gliddon-BuUetin de Ia Soc. de Ocogrophit, No. 06, Juillot., Pnris, 1855, p. tll)-"M. Agassiz ndmct llllit types humnins primitif~." Ref'nled by M.A. 1\IAuuv, in Lho ~11111o Journal (pp. 40-51). 2. lb:Ywooo (tmnsln.tion of VoN DOIIL~;N's lntrod. to the Book of Ocnr4i8, London, 8vo, 1855; II, nppondix 2, p. 278)-" Hottentot ron.lm ;'' instcntl of fauua. 3. A writer ( Oharlwon llftdical Journal, 18M-" An Exn.minntion of Prof. AgnsHir.'s , I< etch," &o.) confounds realm8 withfau•ue inn manner thnt. allows he docs not oven comprehend tot·miuology [e.g., "Mongolin.n rcnlm" (p. 36)-"Prof. A. hn.s formotl two ronlm~ in Af't·ion.;" "Uottcnlot rcn.lm" (p. 87): but inn~muoh as this would-be nn.lut·nlist duly r 'Ooivctl n quiclu8 nt the hnnds of LuKr~ Dumm (Oharlc.vton 11/ed. Joum., July, 1850, Art. 1), ho mny romn.in dropped whore ho wns long ngo, by 1\forton nnd by myself ('lypt8 of Afankind, pp. lvi and 028, nota 210). 4. CuLL (Addrm to the Ethnological Society of London, 1854, p. 8)-" 5. The Negro rcn.lrn. 6. Tho Hottentot rcn.lrn." No such classes occur in Pt·of. Agu~siz's pnpcr. 5. Anon. ( Wwmin41er Review, No. XVTJI, April, 185U; Art. If[, p. 304)-" right t·calmt, * * * Hottentot.," na one of lhom, in liou ot'f11u11a. 0. Anon. (I,ontlon Athcnam111, .June 17, 1854, Review)- [Prof. Agnsaiz] "divitlos mn.ukind into eight. typce, each ol' which hua its rcnlm, wit.h its peculiar n.nimn.l inhn.bitnnts. They n.re ns follows :-1. Arot.ic ;-2. 1\Iongol; -8. European ;-4. Americnn ;-5. African ;-6. IIottmtot; -7. Maln.ynn;- 8. Auatralio. n," &o. J~XPLANA~I'IONS 01!' THJ~ l'ADLEAU. GIO indiv.idual conccptio~ of" Mankind, grouped pl1ysiologically :"-and tho fo11rth a syno1sts by myself. o1' 1}10 "L' · t' d' · · • • ' ' J. v 1ngu1s w tsLmcLtons" dedue1bl from M. ALinum MAURY's Chapter I, in tho present volume I proceed to succ~ ~ct :cmat·ks on tho "Realms" themselves; fol~ l~~mg each by sp~ctft at10n of tho sout·ccs whence each human portia1t has bo ~l d.cnvcd., I recision is the only goal attempted to bo rc.achcd by t~1s tllltc.d-~ablcau's compiler: and the primary fact that ~lll he acquu·cd by Its mspcctor, at ilest glauco, will be the dcsLructw~ of any hn.othoscs he may have foemcd c nccming tho alleged ac~t~n of ~?l.~r 1u.O.uenc? (as per LatiLudc and Longitude) upon Natutc s abou~'n.al coloratLOn o£ the human skin [any greater tkm upon that of the szmzre-sco Monkcy-chari] among her "Lypcs" aud "races" of tho genus IIomo. I. ARCTIC REALM, (Nos.!, 2, 3. 4, 6, 6.) 1'hc nowcst--n.ncl by f111' t.hc best--clcfini Lions !mown to me of tho severn! cl111rnctoriHtic~ of lho humt\1~ inhtlbitnnls (lf tho Jlyporboronn zone, being nlrctldy supJJiiccl by our colllll>orntor · D1·. Motgs (8upra, Cl•nplcr J 1 I, Jlp. 15(!, 10 ), I will not dctr·act from tho modt of tlti ., f~t·st utt.cnutcc o(' ~p •cinl studies on the Poltl>' t·cgion, which !10 hns bccu pr·oscc 11 ti 11g for ~On> IJ tunc by doing moro thn.n inviting ro-peruMnl of I1is r mnrkR; coupled with rcfc1·c11o 0 to thnt oxcellont little oomp ndium-" Productions of' Zones,' illus!l·n.tocl nne! described" (10 l'lotcs nud 10 pautphlots, l8mo-pulllished by l\1yot·s & Co., London, 18.34). Rl!Jl!'E!\l!JNCES AND EXPLANATIONS. No. I.-ESKIMO. ['' Takkrclik!.·•cla, l~~klmnu.-.: or lgloollk :"-l'AilnY, 2d VIJUCIQC, "~·ury nnd !Iooln;" London, 1821, p. 3UI.) Colored ft·om Tloss, Voy. Bllffin'a Btry-"Arctic JTigltlondcr-Ervick, Nntivo of I't·inco llogcnt's 13n.y.'' Compare MALL'I.' IN, Nat. llist. of Man and Jllonlccyt, London, 1841, p. 278, fig. !!18. No. 2.- TCHUTKTCHI. (lm•dited,- 1\·om my fl'lontl Mn. 'EowA!m M. !CwN, nrll•t In tho rccont Voyngo of t11o U.S. <'orvotl>• "Vlnconne•," Cnf)t. llod~OrH, to tho North l'ucltlc, 1853-6. Soo tho romurkH of Dr. Molg• (supra, Chu]Jtor 111) ou ~·tg. 12.J Compnt·o DgsMOtrJ,INS, Racea Umnflillea, 1820; Pl. I, from Cuotus:-llorJJ•rm ( 7'enta of tile J'ualci, London, 8vo, 1853) gi vc~ plntos t o smnll fot· rcliunco; but obset·voR, "'l'cltouski, ~'chuktohe, Tchulski, Tchokto, nnd similn.r n.ppollntious, I bcliovo to 111we n.riRcn from tho word 'J'uski, menning n. coufcdcrn.lion ot· broth rhood." Iro divitlos them into "the ltcindo I' Tusl<i," nud "the flshinll', 01· nlicn 'l'uRl<i"-" lwo distinct t·nccs, o1·, nt lcnst, bmnches, * * * difft•dng in lt\nguo.go, npponrn.neo, nnd ronny details of dross nod occupntion (p. 84)." |
