IV CONTENTS. 



and other types described ; Teeth ; Proportions of the limbs ; De- 

 ficiency of calf; Burmeister on the feet of Negro and Ape; Use of 

 the foot among jugglers of America ; Disagreeable odour of the 

 Negro and other Eaces ; Differences between African and Austral 

 Negroes ; the head of the Negro type ; the Hottentot Venus ; Cir- 

 cumcision of Women in Egypt, in Abyssinia, in the countries of 

 the Nile, among the Hottentots, etc. ; Cranial deformation ; Situ- 

 ation of the Ear ; Egyptian Mummies ; Abnormities of anatomical 

 structure ; Physiological peculiarities ; Animal heat ; Rate of 

 pulse ; Age of puberty and marriage ; Proportions of male to 

 female births ; Congenital deformities ; Mortality ; Signs of age ; 

 Sustentation of pain ; Physical endurance ; Amount of food ; Bodily 

 strength; Results of Freycinet's experiments with the dynamo- 

 meter ; Results of Buckton ; Endurance of savage nations ; Mus- 

 cular weakness of the Americans ; Endurance of the Negro ; of the 

 South Americans, etc. ; Duration of life ; Diseases ; Vital energy 

 of savage and civilized peoples compared ; Healing power ; greater 

 among savage than civilized nations ; Human parasites ; Acclima- 

 tization ; Superiority of the White Races in this capacity ; Cause 

 thereof; the English in India; Whites in West Indies; Negroes 

 in West Indies; conflicting evidence on Acclimatization; Capa- 

 city of blushing ; not confined to the White Races ; Formation of 

 speech-sounds ; Use of the hands ; Perfection of the senses ; Sense 

 of sight in savage nations ; its cultivation by Europeans ; Sense 

 of taste ; Effects of music ; Sense of smell ; in Negro and other 

 savages ; Negro music ; Retrospect ..... 



APPENDIX TO SECTION II. 



ON THE ASSERTED INVIABILITY OF THE AMERICANS, POLYNESIANS, 

 AND AUSTRALIANS. 



Rapid decay of American tribes ; by small-pox and fevers ; by tribal 

 wars ; by spirit drinking ; by loss of territory ; by scanty prolifi- 

 cacy ; by abortion and infanticide ; through early marriages ; Pro- 

 lificacy of North American women ; of South Americans ; Decrease 

 of population in Polynesia ; Statistics thereon ; Causes ; Drunken- 

 ness ; Infanticide ; Abortion ; Sexual excesses ; Internal wars ; 

 Human sacrifices ; Cannibalism ; Famine ; Venereal diseases ; 

 Sterility ; and psychical causes ; Decrease of the Australians ; Dis- 

 eases; Drunkenness; Sexual excesses; Infanticide; Negligence; 

 Want of nourishment ; Invasion of Europeans ; Injustice done to 

 the natives bv the English official . 144 



