450 FULL-BLOOD NEGRO SKULLS. 



It is far back, compared with human history, since this 

 animal was clothed with flesh ; and yet in the history of 

 the continent it is but as it were the other day since he 

 and others of his huge race threaded the woods which 

 overspread the vast area between the Hudson and the 

 Mississippi. 



To contain this great skeleton, Dr Warren has 

 erected a separate building, in which are many other 

 fossil fragments of similar animals, and the almost entire 

 remains of a fossil Zeuglodon from the eocene deposits 

 of the Carolinas. Boston is celebrated for the liberality 

 of its citizens towards public institutions 5 and several of 

 those which are connected more or less closely with 

 natural history are cherishing hopes that Dr Warren 

 may select them to inherit these noble relics of the 

 animal aborigines of North America. 



Another part of Dr Warren s collections which interested 

 me much, was that of skulls of the different races of men; 

 not merely as a general collection for such are to be seen 

 no win almost every capital city but because of the special 

 illustrations it contained of the heads of the negro race. 

 It has been stated by persons worthy of credit, that the 

 older buried skulls of the negro race, disinterred from 

 the negro burying-ground at New York, are much 

 thicker, and indicate a less intellectual character, than 

 those of more modern date. Dr Warren showed me, in 

 his collection, skulls of pure negroes of full blood, which 

 he assured me were of enlarged size, and manifested 

 greater signs of intellectual capacity ; and he expressed 

 to me his conviction, that the negro race, by long resid 

 ence in this more intellectual country, was itself becoming 

 more intellectual. This is certainly in consonance with 

 one s hopes and wishes for this unhappy race, and in 

 accordance with the ideas of Blumenbach. But the 

 upholders of the permanence and inalterability of pure 

 races, meet us with the objection, &quot; that there are in 



