Natural History, — Zoology. SIS 
ployed many years in investigating and describing the skulls of 
the different races of the human species, and also of the various 
characteristic tribes of these races. It has always been a princi- 
pal object with that distinguished naturalist, to obtain skulls of 
the different nations of antiquity, and he has succeeded in col- 
lecting those of Egyptians, Romans, and Germans. Very late- 
ly he has been able to add to his very extensive and valuable 
collection of crania one of an ancient Greek, presented to him by 
the Prince Royal of Bavaria. It was taken from a grave in Gre- 
cia Magna. It is particularly distinguished by the geptle and 
elegant curve of the brow, and the perpendicular position of the 
upper jaw. It may be considered as the prototype of the aw- 
tique Grecian profile^ and serves to shew that the profiles in 
Grecian works of art, were not, as De Pau and others say, merely 
‘‘ un style de dessein, adopte dans quelques ecoles,” Prince 
Maximilian of Newied, one of the most distinguished amongst 
the royal cultivators of natural history on the continent, and 
who, with a rare zeal and intrepidity, exposed himself to all the 
dangers and difficulties of a journey through the wilds of Bra- 
zil, has brought with him to Europe a collection of the crania 
of the different savage tribes he met with. Very lately he pre- 
sented to Blumenbach the skull of one of the Botecudos, a tribe 
of cannibals who inhabit remote districts in the vast country 
of Brazil. We can scarcely find words to express the very 
striking contrast of the features of this cannibal cranium, when 
compared with that of the noble Hellenian already mentioned. 
The one is the most perfect and beautiful in form ever met with, 
while the other in its general aspect more nearly resembles the 
orang outang, than even the most characteristic skull of the 
Negro race. 
38. Structure of the Cuticle. — That admirable man and ex- 
cellent anatomist, the late Dr Gordon, maintained, from actual 
investigation, that the cuticle or scarf-skin of the human body 
was without pores, and had neither a true laminated nor fibrous 
structure. The celebrated Professor Rudolphi of Berlin, in a 
memoir in the Transactions of the Berlin Academy for 1814- 
1815, entitled “ Uher Hornhildungf has confirmed these ob- 
servations. 
39. The Colour qf the different Races of Man situated in the 
Cuticle. — ^The skin of animals is composed of two parts,— the 
