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the Esquimaux did not differ from the other American tribes, so 

 far as generalization could be made of so many different dialects. 

 He here pointed out a drawing of the skull of a Scioto Indian, 

 which he showed by quotations from the writers of Morton's school, 

 was to be considered as the most perfect type of the American head. 

 It differed from the heads of the modern European inhabitants of 

 the country ; but it seemed to him to differ as much from that 

 of the northern Indians. — Besides, as the form of the northern 

 Indian differed from the southern Indian, it approached that of 

 the Esquimaux. The Seminole, again, as drawn by Morton, ap- 

 proximated to the Peruvian head, and differed from the accepted 

 type. He then gave several measurements of heads, from Mor- 

 ton's book, to show that even these did not bear out the theory 

 of Morton. He then mentioned a head found near Barrie, in 

 which the peculiar characteristic noticed by Morton— the flat 

 occiput — was so remarkable, that the skull would stand better on 

 that than on any other side ; but this was so large a deviation 

 from other heads that it was in all probability an example of for- 

 mation by artificial means, which indeed he thought might pro- 

 bably be the cause of the peculiarities which had been looked 

 upon as ethnological, but were really archaeological facts. He 

 mentioned, moreover, that the pyramidal form, another great 

 feature in the heads observed by Morton, was most strikingly de- 

 veloped in the Esquimaux head. 



CLASSIFICATION OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



A further caution to this school was administered by Prof. 

 Anderson, who addressed the Section on this subject, with a view 

 of showing the importance of some comprehensible classification of 

 the varieties of the human race, in order to the correct observa- 

 tion of those facts upon which one school of ethnologists founded 

 their opinion that mankind consisted of several species, or of one 

 species planted in several centres of creation. " To illustrate the 

 difiiculties in the way of such classification, he mentioned that 

 Yirey divided the race into two species — the white and the yellow ; 

 the black and the brown. But he found all sorts of difiiculties 

 in this classification. Take, for instance, the Arabians — the 

 purest of the Semitic races — and he found the Arab in one place 

 with light hair and blue eyes, while in the hot regions of the 

 desert the Arab very nearly approached the Negro. The same 

 changes occurred in the Hindoos and great Iranian races, as 



