PREFACE. IX 



of application and concentration of ideas so powerful, 

 that a just preference might have selected another Editor. 

 It has scarcely been necessary for me to add a single 

 foot-note to the lucid exposition of the Secretary of our 

 parent Society. 



It is my pleasurable duty to thank my friend Dr. 

 James Hunt, the President of our Society, for the kind- 

 ness by which he placed in my hands the editorship of 

 this volume, and for many most valuable suggestions 

 regarding it. To my colleague Mr. J. Frederick Colling- 

 wood, for whose friendly assistance in the performance 

 of the secretarial duties I am indebted for the leisure 

 which has enabled me to edit this work, my thanks are 

 also due. 



To the Council and to the Society I now commit 

 this little tract, an earnest of the more important works 

 which will be hereafter published during the year 1864, 

 in the hope that it may ultimately advance the best in- 

 terests of the science all sincere anthropologists must 



desire to aid. 



C. C. B. 



4, ST. MARTIN'S PLACE, 



March, 1864. 



