NOMENCLATURE OF CLASSIFICATION. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL. 



The human race has been classified by many 

 writers, gome of these classifications are here 

 give in outline. 



By Blumcnbach. 



Caucasian. Malayan. 



Mongolian. American. 



Negro. 



By Buff-on. 



Lapp*. Ethiopians. 



Tartars. Negroes. 



Chinese. Kaffirs. 



Malays. Hottentots. 



Hindoos. Esquimaux. 



Georgians. American Indians. 



By Q. Cuvicr. 



Caucasian 



or white 



race. 



Mongolic 



Assyrians, 



. 

 andl'elasgic. 



Scvthian and 

 Tartaric. 



. Ac. 

 (Hindoos, Per- 

 1 sians, Celts, 

 ) Greeks, 

 ? Latins, Ac. 



SSoythians. 

 Turks, Hun- 

 garians, Tar- 

 tars, Ac. 



KamUchatka, 



Ethiopio ( 



or black ' Africans of South Africa, 

 race. ( 



Mixed ( Malays, Polynesians, Esquimaux, 

 races. ( American Indians, Ac. 



By Linncfu*. 



European or white. I African or 1-1 

 Aaiatic or yellow. | American or brown. 



By Maury. 



White race Arabs, Jews, Hindoos, Europeans, 

 lied race Californians, Mexicans, Pata- 



gonians, Ao. 



Northern race -Esquimaux, Finns, Ao. 

 JUtay-Polynesian race-Malays, Polynesians, 



&c. 

 Yellow race Mongol, Cliinese, Tlubetans, 



Turk*. 



Australian race Papous, Australians, Ac. 

 Hottentot race Hottentots. Ac. 

 Egypto-Berber race Egyptians, Abyssinians, 



Barbers, Ac. 

 Negro race Dahomans, Cuffres, Ao. 



By Quatrefaget. 



f ( Uindoos.GreekR, 



D 1 Slavs. 



( Scandinavian*. 



White or J Semitic ,' Chald-ea, Aral*, 



Caucasian 1 i Egyptian*, Ac. 



/American, 



Allophyletique^ * ^ 



V Ac. 



Yellow or j Turanian, Chinese, Ac. 

 Mongolic. ( Esquimaux, Ac. 



Kaffi "' 



Mixed ( Americans, Japanese, Poly- 

 races. "( nwiait8, AuHtrali.iiis, Ac. 



Otljer classifications have been made by 

 Pritchard, Latham, Ac. 



CHEMICAL. 



Compound tulttaneet have sometimes names 

 formed by combining the names of the con- 

 tained elements, as hydro-chloric, hydro- 

 potassic, Ac. 



Metals have names ending in urn, as thal- 

 lium, sodium, Ac. 



Acidt have names terminating in ic, as sul- 



phuric, citric, oxalic, Ac., when the termina- 

 tion ic is given to a fiulMtanue containing the 

 highest known quantity of oxygen or chlorine, 

 as sulphuric, chloric, Arc. 



The termination ous is used for similar sub- 

 stances containing less oxygen or chlorine, 

 as sulphurous, chlorous, Ac. 



NEOZOIC . 



PALEOZOIC.. 



GEOLOGICAL. 



Post Tertiary Recent and Post- Pliocene. 



Tertiary ( Pliocene Divided into Newer and Older; 



or J. Miocene Divided into Upper and Lower. 



Cainozoic (.Eocene Divided into Upper, Middle, and Lower. 



/rw* f Maastricht, Chalk, Chloritic, Gault, Neocomian, 



Secondary ( Cretaceous .... -^ and Wealden 



or < T J Purbeck, Portland, Kimmeridge Clay, Coral 



Mesozoic I Jura8MC \ Re e f. Oxford Clay, Oolite, and Lias. 



V Trias Divided into Upper, Middle, and Lower. 



Permian 



Coal Measures and Carboniferous Limestone. 

 Divided into Upper, Middle, and Lower. 

 Divided into Upper and Lower. 

 Divided into Upper and Lower. 

 Divided into Upper and Lower. 



Primary 

 or 



Palaeozoic 



i Carboniferous 

 ) Devonian ... . 



} Silurian 



f Cambrian .... 

 * Lauren tian . . 



