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what Le Cat and Haller said about the savages of the Antilles, 

 that they could perfectly trace a Negro by scent, thanks to this 

 odour ; and it is, at the same time, a new proof of the sensitive 

 perfection of the American race. This odour is quite inde- 

 pendent of age, and sometimes is almost insupportable in 

 young children ; it is also independent of sweat, and, in fact, 

 of all the means of cleanliness of which a Negro can make 

 use.* It is due, according to all appearance, to a secretion 

 from the same glands which, in the white man, give such a 

 peculiar odour to the arm-pits; but this latter is absolutely 

 different from that of the Negro, f With regard to this, we 

 must not lose the occasion of noticing one of those contra- 

 dictions into which monogenists have so often fallen, and, in- 

 deed, it could not be otherwise. " The dog does not come 

 from the jackal," says M. Flourens,J "for the jackal has such 

 a peculiar smell, that it does not seem possible that, in this 

 case, the dog should not have preserved some traces of it at 

 least." Shall we reason in the same manner in order to make 

 a special race of the Negro, and would this monogenist ac- 

 cept it ? 



Another very remarkable physiological peculiarity, and one 

 quite as worthy of being noticed, since it has a certain effect 

 upon physiognomy, upon the fades of a race, is a special mode 

 of standing, consisting in holding oneself in a squatting posi- 

 tion, the sole of the foot on the ground, and the thighs bent 

 up against the hams, without the iscliia touching the ground. 

 This effect is what Cook called " a monkey countenance." 



* Le Cat, Traite des Sens, 1744 ; Haller, Elementa Physiologies, vol. v, p. 179 ; 

 Humboldt, Relation Personnelle, vol. iii, p. 229. 



f See Robin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 1845 ; Zoologie, vol. iv, p. 380. 



J Histoire des Travaux de Buffon, p. 92. 



[" Face to face with the present position of metaphysical thought in 

 England, that anthropology, which can find no higher employment for the 

 human mind than the ascertainment of man's relations with the baboons, 



will find no place at all We have no real fear that the consequences 



which may result from the practical application of this law (transmutation) 



will be prejudicial to religion, morality, or society But until the day 



comes when such a law shall be fully, entirely, and satisfactorily established, 

 we must strenuously protest against the diffusion, even amongst the ' wider 

 circle of the intelligent public/ of essays, the object of which is to render 

 ' Man's Place in Nature' closer to that of the brute creation." C. Carter 

 Blake, Man and Beast (Anthropological Revieiv, vol. i, pp. 154,161). EDITOR.] 



