xvi editor's peeface. 



the tone lie adopts. I think, moreover, M. Vogt is a less 

 dangerous foe to the generally received theological 

 opinions of the day, than some other men of science, who 

 express themselves with more reserve, but with far less 

 honesty. 



The scope of the present work is great, and the 

 author treats his subject with "such a comprehen- 

 sive grasp, and in such an interesting manner, that he 

 can scarcely fail to elicit the admiration of both friend 

 and foe. 



It must be strictly borne in mind that this work is not 

 put forward as a text-book on the subject, but simply as 

 a specimen of the popular treatment of Anthropology in 

 Germany, and, in my opinion, it contrasts very favour- 

 ably with anything of a similar nature which has ap- 

 peared in this country. 



The woodcuts are chiefly those used in the original, the 

 exceptions being a drawing of the Abbeville jaw, which 

 in the German version was taken from the sketch of M. 

 Oswald Dimpre, but which has now been cut from 

 a photograph presented to the Anthropological Society 

 by M. A. de Quatrefages. The delineation of the sutures 

 in the woodcut of the Neanderthal calvaria in Lecture 

 XIII, has also been altered to agree with the description 

 sent by Dr. Fuhlrott to Dr. Barnard Davis. 



In the present translation, the German text (with the 

 exception of some corrections and additions by the author) 

 has been followed as closely as possible : but there were 

 some forms of expression, so utterly intractable when at- 

 tempted to be rendered into English, that when intelligible, 

 they have been sometimes adopted in preference to the 

 removal of all traces of foreign idiom and colouring. In 

 works of this description it is advisable to render, not 



