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same subject has fallen into our hands which makes 

 any approach to this, in the departments of which 

 it principally treats, in thoroughness of investiga- 

 tion, and in the decisive and triumphant establish- 

 ment of its conclusions. * * * 



Dr. Summers, then Editor of " The Christian Ex- 

 aminer,^' Nashville, Tenn. (in his " Personal Recol- 

 lection "), writes : 



'' I had the honor of editing the Doctor's book, 

 ' The Unity of the Human Race." ^ -^ * It elicited 

 warm commendations from learned and scientific 

 men on both sides of the water ; among them the cele- 

 brated Humboldt, whose letter to the Doctor was 

 very complimentary. I hope that it has been pre- 

 served among his papers." 



In 1854 and 1855, Dr. Bachman wrote and pub- 

 lished two pamphlets, entitled 



An Examination of the Characteristics of Genera 

 and Species as applicable to the Doctrine of the Uiiitu 

 of the Human Race ; and, 



An Examination of Professor Agassiz^s Sketch of 

 the Natural Provinces of the Animal World and their 

 Relation to the different Types of Man, with a Tableau 

 accompanying tJie Sketch. 



These pamphlets were called forth by a publica- 

 tion entitled " Types of Mankind, or Ethnological 

 Research based upon Ancient Monuments, etc.," by 

 J. C. Gliddon and Nott. This work consisted of pas- 

 sages from Dr. Morton's inedited MSS. ; Agassiz and 

 Dr. Peterson also contributed ; but the greater por- 

 tion of the work was the direct authorship of Messrs. 

 Nott and Gliddon. 



