XVI CONTENTS. 



General Proportions of the Body 339 



In the Mongolian Variety 



Negro 341 



Americans 343 



South-Sea Islanders 344 



Diflferences in Bodily Strength 345 



Peron's Trials with the Dynamometre 346 



Relative Proportions of the Arm and Fore-arm 348 



The Legs 349 



Hands and Feet 351 



Ears ', their Artificial Elongation, &c 352 



Practice of Tattooing the Skin 353 



Raised Cicatrices of the Skin 354 



Perforations of the Nose and Lip 355 



Other Practices 



Pendulous Mammae in the Ethiopian Variety 356 



Similar State in some Europeans 358 



Organs of Generation 359 



Hottentot Females 360 



Remarkable for Size and Length of the Nymphae 



^^arious Descriptions 



The Structure is natural 362 



Analogous Examples in other Instances 364 



Buttocks of the Hottentot Women 365 



Analogous Structure in Sheep 366 



Fabulous Varieties 367 



Men with Tails 368 



Chapter VI. — Differences of Stature. — Origin and Transmission 

 of Varieties in Form. 



Ordinary Human Structure 369 



Fossile Bones of Animals ascribed to Man 370 



No Superiority of Stature in Former ages 37I 



Examples of Tall Individuals 



Short Individuals 372 



Stature of the Caucasian Variety 373 



American Variety 



Patagonians 375 



Erroneous Notion of Animal Degeneracy in America .... 377 



Stature of the Ethio])ian Variety 379 



