JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Vol. LiXII, Part III.— ANTHROPOLOGY AND 



COGNATE SUBJECTS. 



No. III.— 1893. 



NOTES ON ANTHROPOLOGY. 



By H. H. Risley, Esq,, Indian Civil Service, Companion of the Indian 

 Empire; Oficier d'Acade'mie Frangaise ; Director of Ethnography, 

 Bengal. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Place op Man in Nature. 



In the first attempt to classify the animal kingdom, Linnaeus placed 

 men and monkeys side by side in the order of mammals which lie 

 designated Primates. In our own time there has heen much discussion 

 of the question whether the differences between the two coiTespond to 

 the distinction between an order and a sub-order. Owen thought he 

 had proved that in man alone the lesser brain is completely surpassed 

 in size by the larger j but his theory, which would have given to man 

 an indisputably higher structural rank than the most advanced apes, 

 is now generally admitted to have been based upon erroneous observa- 

 tions. 



Even the standard distinction between man as an animal with two 

 hands, and apes as creatures with four, has been swept away by recent 

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