CONTENTS. V 



SECTION III. 



THE RESULTS OF INTERMIXTURE OF DIFFERENT TYPES, AND THE 

 PECULIARITIES OF THE MONGRELS. 



Difficulties of the question ; Influence of the parents on the offspring ; 

 Conflicting opinions ; Burmeister ; Buffon's views ; Mestizoes ; * 

 Mulattoes ; Quadroons ; Quintroon ; Tschudi and Poppig ; Danes 

 and Hindoos ; Opinions of Geoffrey St. Hilaire, Nott and Gliddon ; 

 American Mongrels ; Castelnau's statement of various cross-breeds ; 

 Zamboes and Cabourets ; Different degrees of constancy in inter- 

 mixture ; Effect of different impregnations ; Tertroon, Quadroon, 

 Quintroon ; Transition of Mongrels to higher races ; Value of 

 Mongrels in the States; Qualities of Negro in the Quintroon; 

 Mental and physical characters of the Mongrels ; Gobineau on the 

 effects of crossing ; Nott's theory objected to ; Mongrels of Euro- 

 peans and Australians; Effects of intermarrying; Nott on ste- 

 rility of Mulattoes ; Inviability of Mulattoes ; Nott on the confu- 

 sion of terms ; Cross-breeds of Mexico and the Phillipines ; 

 Permanence of type ; Mixed populations of Europe ; Evidence in 

 favour of unity . . . . . . . . 167 



SECTION IV. 



REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL THEORIES REGARDING THE UNITY OF 

 MANKIND. 



Great improbability of permanence of type ; Wide limits of variation 

 in Man ; Views of Blumenbach and Prichard ; Views of Hamilton, 

 Smith, and Lawrence ; Hombron's theory of centres of creation ; 

 Human fossils ; Wilson on antiquity of Man in Scotland ; Theory 

 of Agassiz ; His Zoological provinces ; Difficulties of his theory ; 

 Hi a change of opinion ; New division ; Objections raised, and his 

 theory discussed ; Latham on original migrations ; Descent from 

 a single pair improbable ; Unity of Indo-Germanic peoples ; The 

 most probable theory of descent ; Climatic influence on Man and 

 Animals ; Natural origin of Man ; Affinity between Man and Ape ; 

 Fossil Apes ; Relation of Negro to White Race and Apes ; Negro 

 type described at length ; Forms intermediate between White and 

 Negro ; LUCSB and Pruner-Bey on race characters ; Other devia- 

 tions from typical forms ; Hair and eyes ; Grounds for Classifica- 

 tion; Type unchanged, as shown by Egyptian monuments j The 

 Jews, " white" and "black" ; Jewish crania ; Cranial variations ; 

 Blumenbach, Retzius, Weber, Engel, Desmoulins, and others on 

 Classification; Lesson, Pickering, Hamilton Smith, Hartmann, 

 D'Omalius d'Halloy, W. F. Edwards, on Constancy of type ; Re- 

 trospect and results . . . . . . .190 



