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III. FER.E. 

 Denies primores superiores sex, acutiusculi. Canini solitarii. 



12. CANIS. Dentes primores superiores VI.: laterales longiores 

 distarites : iutermedii lobati. Infedores VI.: laterales 

 lobati. 



Laniarii solitarii, incurvati. 

 Molares VI. s. VII. (pluresve quam in reliquis). 



familiaris 1. C. cauda (sinistrorsum) recurvata 



domesticus a, auriculis erectis, cauda subtus lanata. 



sagax (3. auriculis pendulis, digito spurio ad tibias posticas. 



grajus y. magnitudine lupi, trunco curvato, rostro attenuate, 

 &c. &c. 



Linnaeus' definition of what lie considers to be mere 

 varieties of the species Man are, it will be observed, as 

 completely free from any allusion to linguistic pecu- 

 liarities 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 

 subject seem as if they were thrown in merely by way 

 of makeweight. 



Buffon, Blumenbach (the founder of ethnology as a 

 special science), Rudolph i, Bory de St. Vincent, Des- 

 moulins, 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 natu- 

 ralists, and most linguists, 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 has never been 



