APPENDIX. 



OK THE CKASU AND THE LANGUAGES OF THE RACES OF 

 MAN IN THE MALAY ARCHIP£LAGO. 



CRANIA. 



A rm yeare ago it was thought that the study of Czania 

 offered the only eiire l>asis of a classification of man. Immense 

 collections have been formed ; they have been mcaauied, de- 

 Bcrihed, and fi<|ured ; and now the opinion is beginning to gain 

 groimdj that for this special purpose they are of very little 

 valm Professor Huxley has boldly stated his views to this 

 effect I and in a proposed uew classification of mankiud has given 

 scarcely any weight to characters derived from the cranium. It 

 is certain, too, that though Cranioscopy has been aasiduously 

 studied for many years, it has produced no results at all com* 

 parable with the labour and research bestowed upon it. No 

 approach to a theory of the excessive variations of the cranium 

 has beon put forth, and no intelligible classification of races 

 has heen founded upon it. 



Dr. Joseph Barnard Daris^ who has assiduously collected 

 human crania for many years, has just published a remarkable 

 work, entitled *' ITiesaurus Craniorum," This b a catalogue of 

 his collection (by far the most extenmve in existence), classified 

 according to countries and races, indicating the derivation and 

 any special characteristics of each specimen ; and by way of 

 description, an elaborate series of measurements, nineteen in 

 number when complete^ by which accurate comparisons can be 

 niade, and the limits of variation determined. 



