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the field of cranio-cerebral topography we have frequently 
spoken. The accompanying table furnishes an idea of M. Topin- 
ard’s classification : 
CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN RACES. 
{ Dolicho, esquimaux. 
Rouge, łed-skins. 
Olive, Mexicans. 
Hair with circular section (straight), J eruvians. 
"| Brachy, America, or a 
Yellow, oy 
Asia, 
Brown, 
g ( 
| Blond, Scandinavians. 
Dolicho, Semites 
Hair with intermediate cross section Black, Ser irman i 
(waved or frizzed), 3 aves : 
L Red arabras rouges. 
Blond, ins. 
Brachy, Chestnut, ; > 
L Brown, ranians. 
5 : A hmen. 
Delicho } Yellowish, : p 3usc! 
Hair with elliptical section (wooly), D Black, Sean day - eat 
1 rachy, x egritos 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS.! 
BRITISH Association. Sir WYVILLE THOMSON’S ADDRESS.— 
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another of the scientific events of the past year. He also 
referred to the voyage of the Italian corvette Magenta, the sound- 
ing voyages of Capt. Belknap in the Tuscarora, the Hassler expe- 
dition of the elder Agassiz, the tentative cruises of the British 
gunboats Lightning and Porcupine, culminating in the Challenger 
expedition, the expeditions to observe the transit of Venus, the _ 
several Swedish expeditions to the Spitzbergen sea, and the Arc- 
tic voyage of the Alert and Discovery, the account of which by 
Sir George Nares it was impossible to read without a feeling of —__ 
regret that the devoted little band had attempted what was so — a 
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