166 Memoir of Samuel George Morton. 
The Malays are two, the Malay family, and the Polynesian 
family. ) 
The American race consists of the American family and the 
Toltecas. ; 
The Ethiopian division comprises the Negro, Caffrarian, Hot- 
tentot, Oceanic-Negro, Australian, and Alforian families. 
“It would be no unpleasing task to exhibit here, in a concise 
manner, the exemplification, by many of his facts, of the Just 
ness of his views on these several topics; particularly as his 
pages are replete with interesting details and descriptions that 
render the volume a charming as well as a most instructive one. 
‘he style is grave, yet full of fervency ; and the whole work 1s 
* as modest and devoid of arrogance as Dr. Morton himself. 
Humboldt compliments him by saying that his work is desti- 
tute of those poetical reveries which may be regarded as the 
myths of modern physiology. 
It is far less loaded than the celebrated Natural History f 
Man, by Dr. Prichard ; but in many respects it is equally deser™ 
ing. We may well consider our country to have been honored 
by its publication. 
I shall not add any further remarks upon it here beyond the 
expression of my hearty concurrence with the opinions of the 
American Journal of Science and Arts, as to the beauty of the 
lithographic heads, of the fidelity and truthfulness of which 
needs only to be said that he was scrupulously honest to that 
degree as to condemn and cancel several completed lithographs, 
most perfectly executed save in some minor, yet, to his: acute 
sense of truth, inadmissible want of perfect accuracy. 
Want of time compels me now to turn to another of his highly 
interesting labors. I allude to the Crania ZEgyptiaca, which, % 
said before, was a communication made to the American Philo 
sophical Society, in December, 1842, and January and Apt 
1843, and published as an independent work, entitled “ Crania 
igyptiaca, or Observations on Egyptian Ethnography, dert 
Jrom History and the Monuments :” Philadelphia and Londo, 
1844, 4to., with plates. 
This volume contains fourteen plates, with views of 98 heads, 
besides humerous very excellent wood-cuts inserted in the ra! 
ning text; and it may safely -be said of the treatise, that thoug! 
signs imauities enabled him to come to the following conelt 
“1. The valley of the Nile, hilt to Prdnedinas - aoe ue 
ally peopled by a branch of the Caucaseymee 
