1386 The Zoologist— October, 1808. 



Man,' by James Cowles Prichard ; ' De la Pluralite des Races,' par 

 Georges Pouchet; ' Types of Mankind,' by Dr. Nolt ; ' The Races of 

 Men,' by Dr. Robert Knox ; ' La Terre et l'Homme,' par M. L. Maury ; 

 ' Observations sur la Constitution physique des Papous,' par Quoy et 

 Gaimard ; ' The Natural History of the Varieties of Man,' by Dr. 

 Latham; and it would be impossible to cite any scientific author who 

 has studied the subject and yet has acknowledged views antagonistic 

 to those I am endeavouring to express; and not one of them, so 

 far as my memory serves me, has applied them with the same ultimate 

 object. 



Secondly. It is the aim of every newspaper in the United States 

 and Australia to show that the native races are in rapid process of 

 destruction, that they must be extinguished, that they are doomed, 

 and that the white man is as a matter of necessity carrying out their 

 doom : to quote where every assertion, every aspiration, every con- 

 clusion, is so concurrent would add nothing to the strength of my 

 argument: it cannot be concealed that the most violent prejudice 

 dictates many of these most morbid effusions : our own Dickens and 

 Hepworth Dixon seem to lake a very similar view. 



Thirdly and lastly. What is the evidence of the philanthropist ? 

 What says the man who cares very little for scientific precision, and 

 who abhors the views forced into notice by the newspaper literature 

 to which I have alluded ? In the year 1830 a number of these philan- 

 thropists associated themselves in a body which they called the 

 Aborigines' Protection Society : they took for a motto the words " Ab 

 uno sanguine;" and their avowed object was to protect those savages 

 whom they found in the possession of the soil, on the ground that 

 all the races or varieties of the genus Homo were descended from 

 one stock. They even objected to the word "savage" as applied 

 to men, and went so far as to express a belief, that the Cau- 

 casians were emphatically the "savages," and not those to whom 

 the word had been applied. In March, 1847, these gentlemen 

 commenced a periodical called the 'Colonial Intelligencer; or, 

 Aborigines' Friend,' and continued it through four volumes. Of 

 the motives which influenced these gentlemen there can be no 

 doubt; the purest Christianity was their guide, and " doing good was 

 their religion." The name of Dr. llodgkin, their honorary secretary, 

 is of itself a guarantee. Differing as I do in tolo from the abstract 

 views advocated by this Society, but thoroughly agreeing with their 

 motives, 1 may with perfect consistency cite their assertions, which 



