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but which I adopt in the accompanying table, 

 because they have been used. It is better for 

 science to accept a faulty name which has the 

 merit of existence, than to burthen it with a 

 faultless newly invented one. 



Under each of these divisions are two columns, 

 one for the Brachycephali, or short heads, and 

 one for the Dolichocephali, 1 or long heads. Again, 

 each column is subdivided transversely into four 

 compartments, one for the " leucous," people with 

 fair complexions and yellow or red hair ; one for 

 the " leucomelanous," with dark hair and pale 

 skins ; one for the " xanthomelanous," with black 

 hair and yellow, brown, or olive skins; and one 

 for the "melanous," with black hair and dark 

 brown or blackish skins. 



LEIOTHICHI. ULOTRICHI. 



Dolichocephali. Brachycephali. Dolichocephali. Brachycephali. 

 Leucous. 



.... Xanthochroi .... 

 Leucomelanous. 



.... Melanochroi .... 

 Xanthomelanous. 



Esquimaux. Mongolians. Bushmen. 

 A mphinesians. 



Americans. 

 Melanous. 



Australians. Negroes. Mincopies (?) 



Negritos. 



%* The names of the stocks "known only since the fifteenth cen- 

 tury are put into italics. Jf the " Skr tilings" of the Norse 

 discoverers of America were Esquimaux, Europeans became 

 acquainted with the latter six or seven centuries earlier. 



1 Skulls, the transverse diameter of which is more than eight- 



