TO 



Dr. PAUL BROCA, 



SECEETAIRE GENERAL DE LA SOCIETE D'ANTHROPOLOGIE DE PARIS, 



HONORARY FELLOW OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



PKOFESSEUR AGREGE A LA FACULTE DE MEDECINE DE PARIS, CHIRUEGIEN 



A l'h6pITAL SALPETRIERE, VICE PRESIDENT DE LA SOCIETE 



DE CHIEURGIE DE PARIS, AND HONORARY FELLOW 



OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



My dear Dr. Broca, 



Your kind permission to dedicate the following 

 translation to you, affords me the opportunity which I 

 have long desired of expressing my sense of the honour 

 which your personal friendship confers upon me ; and at 

 the same time enables me to testify my appreciation of, 

 and admiration for, the incalculable services which your 

 zeal and ability have rendered to the noblest of all sci- 

 ences, the science of Man — Anthropology. 



To those unacquainted with your labours* for this 

 young science in France, and their triumphant results, 



* The following list of Professor Broca's scientific works, especially bearing 

 on the science of Man, will give some little idea of his industry, although 

 they constitute but a small part of what that accompUshed Anthropologist 

 has published during the last few years :— 



Becherches sur V Ethnologic de la France, dans "Mem. de la Soc. d'Anthrop.," 

 t. 1, p. 1, a 56, Paris, 1860, gr. in 8vo. Tire a part, brochure de 56 pages 

 avec une carte. Memoire sur I'Hybridite et sur la Distinction des Especes Ani- 

 males, "Journ.de Physiol.," 1858, t. i, p. 432-471, p. 684-729; 1859, t. ii, 

 p. 218-250, et p. 345-390. Resume des faits relati/s aux Croisements des Chiens, 

 de Loups, de Chacals, et de Benards, " Jom-n. de Physiol.," 1859, t. ii, p. 

 390-396. Sur les principaux Hybrides du genre Equus, sur I'Heredite des 

 Caracteres chez les metis et sur la Fecondite des Mules, " Journ. de Physiol.," 

 1859, t. ii, p. 250-258. Memoire sur les Phenomenes d'Hybriditd dans le genre 

 hum'ain, " Journ. de Physiol.," 1859, t. ii, p. 601-625, et 1860, t. iii, p. 392-439, 

 Sur V Influence durable de certains Croisements de Baces, "BuU. de la Soc, 

 d'Anthrop.," 1859, t, i, p. 19-26. Sur les caps^des surrenaUs d'un Negre, ibid., 

 t. i, p. 30. Sur les Baces primitives, contemporaines de I'ipoque dite du Bilu- 



