EDITOR'S PEEFACE. 



THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON was founded 

 early in the present year, and in its first general Circular 

 announced that it contemplated publishing the present 

 volume as the first of a long series of standard works on 

 Anthropological Science. After the preliminary arrange- 

 ments had been made, the Council and Publishing Com- 

 mittee of the Society conferred on me the honour of 

 entrusting the superintendence of this work to my hands. 

 My duty is accomplished, and I have now the pleasure of 

 introducing DR. WAITZ to the English reader. 



It will be advisable, in the first place, to record here 

 the object of the Society in undertaking to publish trans- 

 lations of works on General Anthropology. The publica- 

 tion of a series of works on the Science of Man forms an 

 integral part of the object for which the Society was es- 

 tablished : as its programme sets forth, " The publication 

 of a series of works on Anthropology will tend to pro- 

 mote the objects of the Society. These works will gene- 

 rally be translations ; but original works will also be 

 admissible." The Society regards this measure as an 

 important means by which it proposes to encourage 

 " all researches tending to establish a de facto Science 

 of Man." 



The responsibility of recommending Dr. Waitz's An- 



