238 PHYSICAL INVESTIGATION. [PART I. 



other production of nature. Among the American race, putting 

 aside the greater breadth of the chest and the smaller feet, 

 there is a great resemblance of proportions with those of the 

 finest European forms. Among the Chinese the deviations are 

 not very considerable, excepting with regard to hand, foot, and 

 length of arm, which are generally smaller in them than in the 

 European; the female hand is, however, distinguished by a 

 greater size. Schultz, 1 on the other hand, asserts, that he 

 found considerable differences in the proportions of parts among 

 Russians, Letts, Tscherkesses, Tschuwashes, Negroes, and 

 Jews. 



We subjoin a short table of measurements possessing an 

 anthropological interest : 



1. Cranial Measurements. Ketzius, in Mailer's "Archiv," p. 84, 1845. 

 (Swedes, Slaves, Finns, Lapps), ibid., p. 498, 1855. (Pampas Indians), in 

 " Nouv. Ann. des voy.," iii, p. 119, 1847. (Abyssinians, Basuto-Kaffirs), 

 Van der Hoven, in Mailer's " Archiv," p. 433, 1844. (Slavonians), Philipps, 

 in Schoolcraft, " Hist, of the Ind. Trib.," ii, p. 385. (North Am. Indians), 

 Robt. Clarke, " Sierra Leone," p. 48, 1846. (Various Negro peoples), Hushcke, 

 Schiidel, Hirn, and Seele. 



2. Measurements of Cranium and the most important parts of the Body. 

 Freycinet, " Voy. aut. d. m.," 1827 (Papuas, Sandwich Islanders, Australians, 

 etc.). Sandifort, "Tab. Cran.," 1838 (Greenlanders, Romans, Amboineese, 

 Kaffirs, Hottentots, Bushmen, North Americans, Singalese, Chinese, Japanese, 

 Papuas, Australians, Kolusches, Guanches, Turks, Negroes, Javanese, Jews). 

 Hueck, " De Cran. Esth.," 1838 (Esthonians, Lapps, Tschuktshes, Kalmucks, 

 Tartars, Letts) . Lesson, " Voy. aut. du m./' 1829 (Mozambique Negroes, Papuas, 

 Alfurus, Polynesians). Schultz et Quetelet, loc. cit. (Ojibbeways, Neapolitan 

 giant, American Hercules, Chinese, Kaffirs, Negroes, European soldiers). 

 Duttenhofer, " Ueber die Emancip. der Neger," p. 77, 1855 (Negroes), Bur- 

 meister, " Geol. Bilder," ii, Negroes ; Thomson, in " Brit. & For. Med. Chir. 

 Eeview/' p. 489, 1854 ; and Fechner's " Central-Blatt," p. 417, 1854, New Zea- 

 landers. Wilkes, " United States Exploring Expedition," v, p. 539, 1845 (Poly- 

 nesians). Flinders, "Voy. to Terra Australia," i, p. 68, 1814 (Australians). 



More important and certain results have been obtained from 

 philological investigations. 



It probably would never have occurred to a zoologist to 

 group the Indo- Germanic, Semitic, and other tribes in the same 

 family. The anthropologist could only wait for and appro- 



1 Froriep's " Neue Notizen," xxxv, p. 164. 



