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Mongolidae, and Atlantidae; and Pickering into white, 

 brown, and black varieties, witli intermediate races. Hux- 

 ley divides the different races into two primary groups, the 

 Ulotrichi, with crisp or woolly hair, and the Leiotrichi, 

 with smooth hair. 



The average height of Englishmen is 5.8-5.10 feet; in 

 the universities more. In America, the average height of 

 medical and military men is 5.9f feet. The Patagonian 

 men are nearly six feet high on an average; the women 

 5.10 feet; the Bushmen and Esquimaux 4.7, the latter ' 

 being the smallest people on the earth. The smallest 

 dwarfs in Europe were 33 and 28 inches in height respec- 

 tively; while Patrick Cotter, the Irish giant, was 8 feet 

 7 inches tall. 



Works on Vbrtebeatbs. 



Fishes. — Gunther's lutroductiou to the Study of Fishes, 1880; 

 Jordan and Gilbert's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America, 1882; 

 with the essays of Storer, Gill, Cope, A. Agassiz, Goode, Bean, etc. 



BatracJdans. — Cope's Batrachia of North America (Bulletin U. S. 

 Nat. Museum, 34), 1889; with the essays of Baird, Cope, etc. 



Reptiles. — Jordan's Vertebrates of the Eastern U. S., 1888; Hol- 

 broolc's Herpetology of North America, 1843; Agassiz's Contributions 

 to the Natural History of the United Stales, vol. ii., 1857; Cope's 

 Check-list of North American Reptiles and Balrachians. 



Birds. — Audubon's Birds of North America, 7 vols,, 1840-44; 

 Coues' Key to the Birds of North America, 1884; Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway's Birds of North America, .5 vols., 1874^84; Ridg- 

 way's Manual of North American Birds, 1887; and the writings of 

 Allen and others; and for an ornithological journal. The Auk, New 

 York. 



Mammals. — Audubon and Bachman's Viviparous Quadrupeds of 

 North America, 1843-47 ; Baird's Mammals of North America, 

 8lh vol. of Pacific R. R. Reports, 1857; Coues and Allen's Mono- 

 graphs of North American Rodentia. 1877; Jordan's Vertebrates ' 

 of the Eastern United States, 1888; Scammon's ]\IariDe Manmia- 

 lia, 1S74; Caton's Antelopes and Deer of North America, 1887; 

 Coues' Fur-bearing Animals of North America, 1878; Morgan's 

 The American Beaver and his Works, 1868; Flower and Lydekker's 

 Introdiiction to the Study of Mammals Living and Extinct, London, 

 1891; also the essays of Allen, Baird, Coues, Gill, Cope, Marsh, 

 Osborn, Scott, Merriam, Gegenbaur, Flower T.ydekker, and others. 



