48 INTRODUCTION. 



pians ; Euro-Africans ; Austro-Africans ; Malays ; Papuas ; Negro 

 Oceanians; Australasians; Columbians; and Americans. 



Bony Di: St. Vincent makes fifteen di\ isions — races with su 

 hair, of the Old World; viz., Homo Japeticus ; • II. Arabicus; 

 II. Indicus; II. Scythicus (Tartars); II Sinicus (Chinese); II. 

 Hyperboreus ; 1L. Neptunianus; II. Australasicus ; — in the New 

 World, II. Columbicus (North Americans); II. Americanus (South 

 Americans); H. Patagonicus — negro races; H. vEthiopicu> ; II. 

 Carter ; II. Melavinus (in Madagascar, Fiji Islands, Van Diemeu's 

 land) ; and II. llottentottus. 



Mn. Martin f gives a sketch of the princij)al divisions of mankind, 

 according to various naturalists, which is quite natural and inl 

 ing. 



Mr. Martin divides mankind into five stocks, as follows : 



1. Japetic Stock; including the European branch, or the Celtic, 

 Pelasjjic, Teutonic and Sclavonic nations; — the Asiatic branch, or 

 the Tartaric, Caucasic, Semitic (Arabs, Jews, &c). and Sanscritic 

 or Hindoo nations ; and the African branch, or the Mizraimic (ancient 

 Egyptians, Abyssinians, Berbers, and Guanches) nations. 



2. Neptunian Stock, including the Malays proper, and the Poly- 

 nesians ; (including, perhaps, among the last, the founders of the 

 Peruvian and Mexican Empires). 



3. Mongole Stock, including Mongoles and Hyperboreans. 



4. Prognathous Stock, including the Afro-Negro, Hottentot, 

 Papuan, and Alfourou branches. 



5. Occidental Stock, including Columbians (North American 

 Indians), South Americans, and Patagonians. 



Dr. Pickering \ observes, in his first chapter, that, in the United 

 States, three races of men are admitted to exist, and the same three 

 races " have been considered, by eminent naturalists, (who, however, 

 have not travelled,) to comprise all the varieties of the human fam- 

 ily." He continues, " I have seen in all eleven races of men ; and 



* Not in allusion to Japhet, the son of Noah, but to Japetus (audax 

 Japeti genus, Horace), whom the ancients regarded as the progenitor of 

 the race inhabiting the western regions of the world. 



t Physical History of Man and Monkeys : by W. C. L. Martin, F. L. S. 

 London, 1841. 



J The Races of Man, and their Geographical Distribution : by Charles 

 Pickering, M. D. Boston, 1843. [U. S. Exploring Expedition.] 



