12 INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



are recorded in the hope that the attention of the scientific community 

 being' directed to them, they will sooner or later be supplied. 



Hall of the Academy, December, 1855. 



NOTE. 



From my paper on the Cranial Characteristics of the Races of Men 

 contribvited to the forth-coming work of Messrs. Nott and Gliddon, entitled 

 ' Indigenous Eaces of the Earth," I have selected and embodied in the 

 Catalogue several brief paragraphs descriptive of some of the heads in the 

 Collection. These paragraphs are enclosed in brackets, thus, [ ]. 



For the use of the wood-cuts which embellish the succeeding pages, 

 and which were originally executed for Crania Americana, Crania iEgyp- 

 tiaca, Types of Mankind, and Indigenous Eaces of the Earth, I am in- 

 debted to the kindness of Messrs. G. E. Gliddon and R. P, Morton. 



February, 1857. 



