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familiaris 1. C. cauda (sinistrorsum) recurvata 



domesticus a. auriculis erectis, cauda subtus lanata. 



saaax fi. auriculis pendulis, digito spurio ad tibiaa 



posticas. 



grajus y. magnitudine lupi, trunco curvato, rostro at- 

 tenuate, &c. &c. 



Linnaeus' definition of what he considers to be 

 mere varieties of the species Man are, it will be 

 observed, as completely free from any illusion to 

 linguistic peculiarities as those brief and pregnant 

 sentences in which he sketches the characters of 

 the varieties of the species Dog. "Pilis nigris, 

 naribus patulis " may be set against " auriculis 

 erectis, cauda subtus lanata ; " while the remarks 

 on the morals and manners of the human sub- 

 ject seem as if they were thrown in merely by 

 way of makeweight. 



Buffon, Blumenbach (the founder of ethnology 

 as a special science), Rudolphi, Bory de St. 

 Vincent, Desmoulins, Cuvier, Retzius, indeed I 

 may say all the naturalists proper, have dealt with 

 man from a no less completely zoological point of 

 view ; while, as might have been expected, those 

 who have been least naturalists, and most lin- 

 guists, have most neglected the zoological method, 

 the neglect culminating in those who have 

 been altogether devoid of acquaintance with 

 anatomy. 



Prichard's proposition, that language is more 

 persistent than physical characters, is one which 



