x THE STRUCTURE OF MAN 



Islands, has vastly increased, through the discovery that formerly 

 dwarf races were widely distributed, evidence of their existence 

 having been obtained in North Africa, Sicily, Switzerland, and 

 the Pyrenees in the Old World, and in Central America in the 

 New. 



In editing this work, I have spared no pains to bring it up 

 to the standard of English requirements. In the course of the 

 revision a free rendering, rather than a translation, of the original 

 German has been deemed in many places desirable ; and para- 

 graphs dealing with incidental and controversial topics have 

 been for the most part put into small type. Important altera- 

 tions and intercalations are enclosed in square brackets, and 

 for these I hold myself responsible. My friend Professor 

 Arthur Thomson of Oxford has done me the great service of 

 looking through the proof-sheets, and to him and my friends 

 Dr. Forsyth-Major and Mr. Oldfield Thomas, I tender my sincere 

 thanks for advice upon special topics. 



G. B. HOWES. 



ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, LONDON, 

 SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W., 

 May 1895. 



