208 Bibliography. 



2. These primeval people, since called Egyptians, were the Mizraimites of Scrip- 

 ture, the posterity of Ham, and directly affiliated with the Lybian family of na- 

 tions. 



3. In their physical character the Egyptians were intermediate between the Indo- 

 European and Semitic races. 



4. The Austral-Egyptian or Meroite communities were an Indo-Arabian stock 

 grafted on the primitive Lybian inhabitants. 



5. Besides these exotic sources of population, the Egyptian race was at different 

 periods modified by the influx of the Caucasian nations of Asia and Europe, — Pe- 

 lasgi, or Hellenes, Scythians and Phenicians. 



6. Kings of Egypt appear to have been incidentally derived from each of the 

 above nations. 



7. The Copts, in part at least, are a mixture of the Caucasian and the Negro in 

 extremely variable proportions. 



8. Negroes were numerous in Egypt, but their social position in ancient times 

 was the same that it now is, that of sei'vants and slaves. 



9. The national characteristics of all these families of man are distinctly figured 

 on the monuments ; and all of them, excepting the Scythians and Phenicians, have 

 been identified in the catacombs. 



10. The present Fellahs are the lineal and least mixed descendants of the an- 

 cient Egyptians; and the latter are collaterally represented by the Tuaricks, Ka- 

 byles, Sivvahs, and other remains of the Lybian family of nations. 



11. The modern Nubians, with a few exceptions, are not the descendants of the 

 monumental Ethiopians, but a variously mixed race of Arabs and Negroes. 



12. Whatever may have been the size of the cartilaginous portion of the ear, 

 the osseous structure conforms in every instance to the usual relative position. 



13. The Teeth diff"erin nothing from those of other Caucasian nations. 



14. The Hair of the Egyptians resembled, in texture, that of the fairest Europe- 

 ans of the present day. 



15. The physical or organic characters which distinguish the several races of 

 men, are as old as the oldest records of our species. 



11. Ehrenherg's Researches on the Distribution of Microscopic Life. 

 — The comparison of the microscopic organisms of Europe with those 

 of other countries, which Ehrenberg commenced in his paper on the 

 American forms, of which an account appeared in this Journal, (Vol. 

 XVI, p. 297,) has been continued by him with true German industry, 

 and his examinations have now been extended to Asia, Africa, and 

 Australia. Aided by his method of examining the portions of soil 

 clinging to the roots of plants in herbaria, and by contributions from 

 travellers, of Algse and earths containing infusoria, he has been enabled 

 to give a comprehensive view of the minute living forms of an im- 

 mense portion of the surface of the earth. Abstracts of several of 

 Ehrenberg's memoirs upon this subject are given in the monthly reports 

 of the Academy at Berlin for March and May, 1843, and from these , 

 we have selected the following as being of most interest and impor- 

 tance. 



In his memoir on the Asiatic forms the author accompanied his re- 

 marks upon the importance of the most careful observation of the mi- 



