110 ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN. 



iNG *, LuDwiG t, in Germany % ; Hunter § and Kaimes I| 

 in Scotland ; Smith ^ in America; and Dr. Pritchard ^'^' 

 in this country, whose clear statements, convincing reason- 

 ing, and very extensive information, stamp the highest value 

 on his interesting work, and distinguish it very advantage- 

 ously from most other productions on the same subject. 



LiNNiEUs places man in the order primates of the class 

 MAMMALIA ; and has given him for companions, the mon- 

 keys, lemurs, and bats ; of which the latter, at least, must 

 be not a little surprised at finding themselves in such a si- 

 tuation and company. The characters of his order are, 

 " Front teeth incisors ; the superior, four; parrallel. Two 

 pectoral mammae." 



The principles must be incorrrect, which lead to such an 

 approximation. 



As the monkey race approach the nearest to man in 

 structure and actions, and their forms are so much like the 

 human as to have procured for them the epithet anthropo- 

 morphous, we must compare them to man, in order to find 

 out the specific characters of the latter ; and we must insti- 

 tute this comparison particularly with those called orang- 

 utangs. 1 shall have frequent occasion, in this part of the 

 subject, to mention the latter animal ; it is therefore neces- 



detached essays and treaties of the Historisches Magazin collected together 

 and arranged. 



* Uber die korpcrllche Vcrschiedcnheit des Negers vom Europacr., 8vo. 

 Frankfort, 1785. 



+ Grundriss dcr Naturgesc/dchfe der Mcnahen Species ; Lcipsic, 1790. 

 ^ Some other books have been published in Germany, with which I am not 

 acquainted ; viz. J. R. Forster and Kluhel Abbildungcn mcrkwurdiger 

 Volker und Thierc ; Halle, 1793, Svo. 

 G. Forster und Sprengel Beytrdge zur Volker und Landerkunde. 

 § Diss, Jnaug. de Ilominum Varietatibus ; Edinburgh 1775 : and in 

 Webster's Collectinn. 

 II Sketches of the History of Man ; 2 v. Svo. Edinburgh. 

 5 Essays on the Causes of Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Hu- 

 man Species ; Philadelphia: reprinted London, 1789. 



** Disp. Inaug. de Hominum Varietatibus; Edinb. ISOS : greatly en - 

 larged, and translated into English under the title, Researches on the Physi- 

 ca I Hist ry of Man; Swo. \S\3. 



