138 Comparative View of 



will give, in detail, the number df individuals of each natiofi* 



as far as ascertained. 



Anglo-Americans, . . . . . . 6 



German, Swiss and Dutch, 7 



Celtic, Irish, and Scots, 7 



English, 4 



Guanche (Lybian), , . . . . . 1 



Spanish, 1 



Hindoo, 3 



Europeans not ascertained, 23 



Total, 52 



" 2d. The Mongolians measured, consist of Chinese and Es- 

 kimaux, and what is worthy of remark, three of the latter give 

 a mean of 86 cubic inches, while seven Chinese give but 82. 



"3d. The Malays embrace Malays proper and Polynesians, 

 thirteen of the former and five of the latter ; and the mean of 

 each presents but a fractional difference from the mean of all. 



" 4th. The Ethiopians were all unmixed negroes, and nine 

 of them native Africans, for which I am chiefly indebted to 

 Dr M'Dowell, formerly attached to the colony at Liberia.* 



" 5th. Respecting the American race, I have nothing to add, 

 excepting the striking fact that, of all the American nations, 

 the Peruvians had the smallest heads, while those of the Mexi- 

 cans were something larger, and those of the barbarous tribes 

 the largest of all, viz. 



( Peruvians collectively, 76 cub. inch. 



Toltecan nations, < Mexicans collectively, 79 do. 



(^ Barbarous tribes, as per table, 82 do. 



* Dr Morton states the mean internal capacity of the European, or Cau- 

 casian skulls, to be 87 cubic inches, and of the Ethiopian, or Negro race, 

 to be 78 cubic inches. We observe that Dr Andrew Combe, in his " Re- 

 marks on the Fallacy of Professor Tiedemann's Comparison of the Negro 

 brain and intellect with those of the European," arrives at results coin- 

 ciding with those obtained by Dr Morton. Tiedemann gives the weight 

 of only four Negro brains. "The average European," he says, "runs 

 from 3 lb. 2 oz. to 4 lb. 6 oz. ; while the average of the four Negro 

 brains rises to only 3 lb. 5 oz. 1 dr. ; or 3 oz. above the lowest European 

 averages ; and the hiffJust Negro falls 5 oz. short of the highest average Eu- 

 ropean, and no less than 10 oz. short of Cuvier's la-ain." Phren. Jouni., 

 vol. xi. We have already shewn, p. 357, that Tiedemann's linear dimen- 

 sions of the European and Negro brain also contradict his theorj^ of equal- 

 ity, an are in harmony with Dr Morton's results. 



