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Show 624 EXPLANATIONS OF TilE TADLEAU. "I re111ly think Europidia113 is tho le11st objeotion11blo, 11lthough I owa it would induce pooplo, 11t first gl11nco, to suppose th11t it includes tho descendants of Em·opeaus oaly, whore11s tho 11amo ought to include Europeam and all their dc&ee11dantr. .1!'. L." Such 11ro tho difficulties. I do not propose to resolve them: but would inquire of followothnologi ~ts- innsmuoh as wo now know tb11t, in primordio.l .Europe, thoro once existed (prior to tho tripartite Celtic, Indo-Oermtln, 11nd Shl11vio, immigrtllious), men whose silexinstruments lio entombed in French diluvio.l drift., moo whose humatilo vestiges nre found in ossuttrics and bone-caverns, men who in Anf(lio. and in Sottndinavin preceded the Kelt; just aH tbo1·e aro still living, in modorn Europe, t.hoir .Ba8que ttnd Albanian, nmid other, successors-whether it might not bo convenient to 11dopt Prof. Liobor's term "Europidio.ns" (or, Europidm), by way of distinguishing such primary bumo.n stmtilico.tions from the secondary, now comprised in tho cm·t·ont word "Europo11ns"? REFERENCES AND EXPLANATIONS. No.lS.-FINN. [" Jt\nnes !Ielm," Norwl\y r.oplnnder :-HAMILTON SMITII, op. cit., 1'1. XXX., p. 403; "The diminutive Laplander of Norway, ahnllorly marked with Pinnic intcrunioll"-compnru pp. 318-20.J " 'DAN m1d ANa uL, so.ys tho venerable historio.n So.xo-0 t·ammnticus, wer~ brother~ :"'-thnt iH to any, tho Dnnos o.nd tho EngliHb descend from ono o.nccstry. A11gelm, whence tho Anglos 011me to .Ar1glia, lies in Denmo.rk proper; and tho Jutes, Jutlnndcrs, cnmo over to England with tho Snxons." (ELt,FlS· MERE, op. cit. (suprn, note 6::12) p. 1 :-Also, for "Normo.n no.mcs," consult .AUmoires de la Soc. R. des Antiquaries du Nord, Copcuhngon, 8vo., 1862.) (Soo p. 434, ante. J "With rog11rd to cxtornnls," s11ys tho tratlsltttor of O};ouo1 (Ruuia, or a complete Historical account of all the Nations which compose that empire, London, 8vo., 1780, i. p. 87, 46), "tho Finns dill' or nothing from lho Laplanders" - being flo.t o.gainst tho observations of CnpcU Drooksl Dut tho sopnrt~tion of the Finns from tho L11plandcrs is supposed to ho.vo taken place in tho 13th century, nftor tho forcible conversion of tho former to Christio.nity. However, tho very best work on all tho Russinn peoples is CouNT CrrAnr,ns l>E REountmo's (LesPeuples de la Russic, &c.-with 04 figures, Po.ris, 2 vola. fol.,-without d11tc, but during tho l'oign of Nicholas). Ho says (i. p. G), "How mnny nations, bow mnoy religions, how mnny tongues, whnt vo.riccl customs in this immense Sto.te I Let its diverse habitants bo compo.rod, nnd what distances between their forms, their mo.nnor of liviug, theit· costumes, their tongues, their opinions I Who.t o. difference, for instance, betwixt the I.ivoninn and tho Ko.lmouk, betwixt tho Russ n.nd tho So.moiedo, betwixt tho Finn o.nd tho Cauco.sinn betwixt tho .Aioutio.n o.nd the- Cosso.ck I Wbo.t divers degrees of civilization: from tho So.moiedo, who merely, so to so.y, vegetates in his smoky hut, to tho aflluont inhabitant of St. Petersburg or of Moscow, who oxprossos himself in the language of Volto.iro nlmost oqu111ly to a Po.risio.n I" lie onumcro.tos 90 mcos gt·oupod into five typos. It must be from this work's suggestions lho.t Prine~ Domidoff created th11t beautiful serieS' of colored casts of B.ussio.n ro.cos now in tho Galerie Anthropologiquc. No. 14.- ICELANDER. [" 1'6tur Olnlfsen. POchour de ROklnvlk: -OAYMAIU>, Voy. en Illantle et en Grlk1tl4nde, Oorvetlle "Recherche" (1836-6), Pari•, 1840; Col. AU1111 hiBt., I.] Colored by descriptions. Vidt rupra, Cho.p. V., pp. 684-5. No.l6.-BA.RON CUVIER, [~'rom llthog.r.>pb ofbla portrait by MAl/1\tN.] EX PLAN AT I 0 N S 0 F 'l' ll E TABLEAU. 625 "O•;oM•l Cuvum, tho fit·st of all dosoriptivo an11tomists, n.nd tho sciontifio mo.n who first, t>ftor .Aristo tle, applied tho art of an11tomy to genoml Koienco, wus born on tho 23d of August, 1760, at Montbolio.rd, n small o.nd originally 11 Gorman town, but long since incorporo.ted within lbo .E'ronch torritorios. llo WI~B n mttivo of Wirtcmborg, n German in fact, and not o. Frcncbmnn innny sonso of tho term, s11ving 11 politico.! one. Tho ftunily came origino.lly from u. villugo of the Jum, bettring tho s11mc llttmo, of Swiss origin therefore, and o. lllttivo of tho country which gave bit·th to .Agt~ssiz. Iu pcrsono.l 11ppoar11nco ho much resembled a Dane, or North Ocrmnu, to which ru.oo ho roully bolougcd. Cuvior then wo.s u Oot·mo.n, a mnn of tho Oormnu race, au adopted son of F!'lmoe, but not o. Celtic man [nor 11 Kelt], not n 1•'rcnolunan. In cho.l'l~clor ho w11s in fuot t.bo 11ntithosis of their ro.co, o.nd how ho assorted and consortc\l with them it is dillioult to say. Co.lm, systom11tic, a lover of the most perfect order, motbodico.l beyond o.ll moo 1 have ever seen, collcetivo nod accumulo.tivo inn scientific point of view, his destinies co.llod him to play a grand part in tho midst of 11 non-o.ccumulo.tivc race, a race with whom order is tho exception, di~ordor tho rule. Dut his place was in tho Academy, into which noithor dcmo.goguos nor priests cnn enter. Around llim sat La Place, Arngo, Otty-Lussll.O, IluntbolJt, Arnporc, Lamo.1·ck, OooJI'roy. ~'hi s wns his security, those his ooo.djutors, thi~ tho audience which Cuvior, tho Saxon, nud therefore tile Pt·o tosturlt, hnbitul\lly addressed. It waH whilst oonvorsiug with him one day in his libmry, whi ch opened into the Museum of Compttmtivo An11tomy, n museum whioh ho form ed, th11t tho full value of his position fot·ecd itself upon mo. ~'l1is wn~. 1 thiuk, during tho winter of 1821 or '22. A memoir ho.d boon discussed a day or two before nt tho Academy: I romttrked to him thut tho views advocated iu tho.t memoir could not fnil to be udoptod by oil unprejudiced men (llommes '""' pr~,jug ls) in l!'mnco. 'And bow mttny men san3 pt·{J'ugl& may thoro be in }'ranee?' was his reply. " • ~'hero must,' I sairl, 'bo many, thoro mu~t be thousands.' " • 1teduco the number to forty, and you will be noat·or tho tl·uth,' wo.s tho rcmnrkablo obsorvr~tion of my illu s h·iou~ friend. J mused t\nd thougbt."-(R. KNOX, M.D., 1~. n. s. E., Great Arti8(8 and Great Anatomists, London, 12mo. 1862, pp. 18-19. No. 16.- BULGARIAN. ["}'nmlllo Dulgnre:"-OAtMA.RD (Oommlasien Selcutlfique du Nord), Voy. au l.)Jit:.Ourg, Lapo11u, &c., (1838-40); .AtUu PiUm·., 66""· Jlv.] Seo cxcollont "Portraits-types 'l'urcs ct Orcca dolo. B.oum61io," with others of Circassinns, Kurds, &c., in IIomtAllll-: JHJ li~LL (Voyage ttl 'l~lrquio et m Peru, Pttris, 1864, Atlns fol., 1'/$, viii., !iii., xlviii.: ttnd, for everything else bore noodful, D'OnssON Tab/uw genlral de l'Empire Ottoma11, Paris, fol., 1790- 1820; II, pp. 130- 7; Plo.to~ 63-74.) No. 17.- GREEK. [" l'nllcor fguorilln], 11o8 de I'Arcl•lpel. Orco:-Galcrie Royale de Oostu11~, Aubert & 0'•., l'llri•, fol. , 1'1. 8.J On this fnco, M. Pulszky comments, in a private Iotter to mo, that this rnBn is n Sclavoniu11. I agree with him; but such is the normal type of Moroots at tho present day. .No. 18.- CAUCABIAN. [" J'riuCQ KMbok (Os•6tl6) :"-OAOAntNE, tmtuntts cl~< Cl>llcase, Pnrl•, fol. 1862.] 1 mo1m, ns tho highest t.ypo of the "111 en of Mt. Cnncnsu~" ( 8Upra, Chup. V, note 4GO). I httvo no spnco to· cnlo.rgo upon this mountain's multifot·m inho.bitnnts. 40 li |
