50 ANATOMICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL, AND 



temples. We ourselves, when visiting the famous cavern of 

 Abou-Simbel, were far from finding all that the writings of 

 certain anthropologists and partisans of Egyptian art, such as 

 Gliddon, Nott, etc., had promised us. Doubtless, one can 

 perfectly distinguish certain types,* that is indisputable ;f 

 but to desire to find a people in each portrait, Scythians, 

 Arabs, Philistines, Lydians, Kurds, Hindoos, Jews, Chinese, 

 Tyrians, Pelasgians, lonians, etc., is it not to give too great 

 an influence to the Egyptian artists, who were copyists without 

 skill, and but clumsy inventors ? Egyptian art, whatever may 

 have been said of it, has always been very much farther from 

 being a copy of nature than Grecian art ; the one tended to 

 the ideal, the other tended to transform it. Certain trees 

 which we see thrown down in the bas-relief of the great 

 temple of Karnak, are assuredly pure imagination. It may 

 have been the same with many other subjects to which a 

 scientific value has been given. 



Let us return to anatomical differences, and to that which 

 has, since antiquity, most vividly struck the masses, as well as se- 

 rious investigators. We are going to speak about those colours 

 in the skin of man which run through almost the whole of the 

 chromatic scale, from dead white to the deepest brown. J There 

 is no system which has not been thought of in order to explain 

 these differences, even up to the influence of Noah's curse. 



Unfortunately, we are wanting in those histological and 

 chemical researches which are necessary in order to form the 

 bases of a complete history of the colours of the skin in the 

 human race.|| We can merely say, that the recent works upon 

 certain morbid states, such as Addison's disease, and others 



* [Compare the memoir of Professor C. Gr. Carus, Ueber die Typisch geurdenen 

 dbbildungen menschlichen kopfformen namentlich auf milnzen in verschiedenen 

 zeiten und volkern, published in the Novorum Actorum Academice CcBsarece Leo- 

 poldini-Carolince Germanicce natures curiosum for 1863, in which the author 

 gives characteristic examples of the ancient types, as deduced from the ex- 

 amination of coins, etc. Compare, also, Nott and Gliddon, Types of Mankind. 

 EDITOR.] 



f See especially Lepsius, Denkmaeler von Egypten und (Ethiopen, vol. ii, pi. 

 133 ; vol. iii, pi. 116, 117, 118, 136. 



% Berard, Cours de Physiologic, Paris, 1848, vol. i, p. 394. 



See J. H. Hanneman, Curiosum Scrutinium Nigredinus Posterorum Cham, 

 in 4to, Kiloni, 1677, 14. 



II See Pruner-Bey, Bulletins de la Soci6t6 d' Anthropologie, 5th March, 1863. 



