APPENDIX. 



ON THE CRANIA AND THE LANGUAGES OF THE RACES OF 

 MAN IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. 



CRANIA. 



A FEW years ago it was thought that the study of Crania 

 offered the only sure hasis of a classification of man. Immense 

 collections have been formed ; they have been measured, de- 

 scribed, and figured ; and now the opinion is beginning to gain 

 ground, that for this special purpose they are of very little 

 value. Professor Huxley has boldly stated his views to this 

 effect ; and in a proposed new classification of mankind has given 

 scarcely any weight to characters derived from the cranium. It 

 is certain, too, that though Cranioscopy has been assiduously 

 studied for many years, it has produced no results at all com- 

 parable with the labour and research bestowed upon it. No 

 approach to a theory of the excessive variations of the cranium 

 has been put forth, and no intelligible classification of races 

 has been founded upon it. 



Dr. Joseph Barnard Davis, who has assiduously collected 

 human crania for many years, has just published a remarkable 

 work, entitled " Thesaurus Craniorum." This is a catalogue of 

 his collection (by far the most extensive in existence), classified 

 according to countries and races, indicating the derivation and 

 any special characteristics of each specimen ; and by way of 

 description, an elaborate series of measurements, nineteen in 

 1 1 umber when complete, by which accurate comparisons can be 

 made, and the limits of variation determined. 



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