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of the inquiry may not thus occasionally be thrown out. But whether 

 so or not, the inquiries should be printed at a press owned and con- 

 trolled by the board, and in a form to correspond with the general style 

 and plan of their publications. In what manner compensations should 

 be awarded, and whether by a temporary appointment or a fixed pro- 

 fessorship, having a residence at the parent Institution, and the benefit 

 of its library and collections, in the various departments, may admit of 

 consideration. One remark may however be confidently added, that 

 without adequate provision for the time, books, and travel incident to 

 the inquiry, no person can be expected to enter upon effective labor in 

 this field. 

 Outlines of the study are sketched in the following synopsis. 



(I.) OBJECTS OF INQUIRY. 



1. Physical type of man, or physiological traits by which the several races 

 of men may be distinguished. 



(a) Ethnographical position on the globe. — Tribes ; nations. ( Wiseman.) 

 Generic groups. {Blumenbach, Pritchard.) 



2. Material existence. 



{a) Means of subsistence. — In the hunter state : ( Zea maize, roots and 

 fruits, flesh of animals ;) Ichthyophagi : (Coast-tribes, crustaceans, 

 fish. What species'?) Herdsmen: (Gens des roche, gens des large.) 

 Agriculturists : ( What plants cultivated ? how ? and by whom ? 

 what agricultural tools ? Cotton-plant ; tobacco ; potato.) Concurrent 

 facts in natural history. 



(6) Mechanical arts : skill. — Clothing : skins : bark : hemp-plant ; 

 hunting implements ; arms ; implements of public games ; fishing im- 

 plements : nets: fish-hooks: bone-needles; navigation; vessels: native 

 cordage ; utensils for preparing food : knives : pots ; potter's art : 

 What condition"? vessels of clay — raised by hand or on the wheel? 

 boiling. How effected, where no clay pots f Metallurgy. What facts? 

 Axe of stone, of copper. Trees, how felled ? baskets : twine: awls, of 

 bone or horn ; pipes of clay, of stone ; art of dyeing. 



(c) Architecture. — Dwellings, how made; tools in reference thereto; 

 sculpture; painting; monuments of stone, of earth; temples; roads; 

 bridges ; teocalli ; mounds ; idols ; baths ; fountains ; sepulchres. 



(3) Intellectual existence. 



(a) Languages spoJcen and written. 



{b} Geographical names. 



[c) Picture writing. — Hieroglyphics; wampum belts; quippus; in- 

 scriptions. 



{d) Arithmetic. — Units: mode and bmits of computation j decimal 

 system ; vigesimal mode ; high numbers, how denoted. 



