APPENDIX. 319 



LECTURES 



ON THE 



ZOOLOGY OR THE NATURAL HISTORY 



OF THE 



VARIOUS RACES OF MANKIND. 



It is not a little remarkable that with the exception of 

 Professor Lawrence, at the Royal College of Surgeons/ in 

 1816, and myself at the different Literary and Scientific 

 Institutions in London and the Provinces, no Public Lecturer 

 has thought it worth while, or of sufficient importance, to 

 deliver a Course of Public Instruction on the Zoology, or 

 Natural History, and National Peculiarities, of the various 

 races of mankind; in fact of the Chef d'Ouvre of the 

 wondrous creative power of an Omnipotent God, respect- 

 ing which the beautiful and well-known aphorism of the 

 immortal Pope ought to be in constant remembrance, 



" That the proper Study of Mankind is Man." 



The following constitute the subject of this Course of 

 Lectures. 



LECTURE I. 



Introductory observations — Origin of Man — Classification 

 of Man — Form of Man — Anatomical Peculiarities — History 

 of Man — Multiplication and Dispersion of the Human Race 

 — External Configuration — Complexion, Progressive con- 

 dition of Man — General Peculiarities of the Two Sexes — 

 Mental Characteristics of Woman — Description of a Singa- 

 lese Beauty — Mr. Sharon Turner's Observations — Tempera- 

 ment of the Constitution — Man enabled to live in any Cli- 

 mate — Food and Antipathies of Man — Conclusion. 



LECTURE II. 



The First Age or Infancy of Man — Peculiarities of the 

 Early Stages of Human Existence — Second Age — Teething 

 — Third Age — Childhood — Fourth Age — Youth — Stature 

 of Man— Fifth Age— Manhood— Strength of Mankind — 

 Differences in the Constitution, consonant with the peculiari- 

 ties of Climate — Beauty of the Female Sex — Fertility of 



