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face, which is done by means of a spoon, the face is to be care- 

 fully smeared over with oil or clarified butter, in order not to draw 

 up with the plaster the hairs from the head ; the beard, par- 

 ticularly, is to be preserved by stiff pomade of some kind. Our bro- 

 ther Edward, a Bavarian officer lately killed in the battle of Kissingen, 

 succeeded, when in Morocco, in making casts of the back of the 

 head also. For this purpose he found it of great use to cover the hair 

 with thin oiled muslin. The back of the head was made first, then 

 the borders were flattened with a knife, and all duly oiled; the 

 head was placed again in this part of the mould for making the 

 face and part of the breast ; thus he obtained a true copy of the head. 

 About 15 pounds of plaster are wanted for an entire head and part of 

 the breast. 



Dr. Anderson said that he felt quite uncertain as to what was 

 attempted to be proved in the paper just read. If the object was to 

 detect a similarity of race by the comparison of characters derived 

 solely from the external face, he dissented entirely from the adoption 

 of any such system in Ethnological research. The facial characters, 

 when taken by themselves, as M. Schlagintweit has done from casts, 

 which give not the slightest inkling of the form of the cranium, can 

 lead to no very sound generalization in Ethnology, and indeed the 

 more we restrict ourselves to one character as our guide, in proportion 

 will be our liability to increase in error. 



Believing that much weight cannot be attached to facial casts as an 

 aid to Ethnological study, I commenced three years ago the formation of 

 a series of life busts, to illustrate in the Indian Museum the external 

 characters of the head and face of the various Indian races. The busts 

 were taken from life, and the plan I adopted, appears to differ little from 



that which Mr. Schlagintweit has lately followed. It is this : I 



make the subject lie down on a charpoy, and support his shoulder and 

 head with a couple of pillows, over which a loose cloth is laid and tucked 

 in round the head, neck and shoulders, to prevent the plaster spreading 

 too much when it is poured on. Before making the subject lie down, 

 I first thoroughly anoint his face, neck and shoulders and chest with 

 oil* and his beard, moustache, eyelids, eyebrows and the hair of his 

 head with butter, which should be laid on unsparingly on these parts, 

 to prevent their adhering to the plaster. When the anointing has been 



