ST18 Scientific Intelligence.— Anthropology. 
angular rather pointed head, the broad crown, the prominent 
sinus frontales, the low forehead, the pointed and projecting 
cheek-bones, the oblique position of the small narrow eyes, the 
blunt, proportionally small, broad, flat nose, the thinness of the 
hair on the chin, and the other parts of the body, the long 
smooth black hair of the head, the yellowish or bright reddish 
tint of the skin, are all characteristics common to the physio- 
gnomy of both races. The mistrustful, cunning, and, as it is 
said, often thievish character, and the expression of a mean 
way of thinking, and mechanical disposition, appear, in both, 
in the same manner. In comparing the Mongol physiognomy 
with the American, the observer has opportunity enough to 
find traces of the series of developments through which the 
Eastern Asiatics had to pass, under the influence of the climate, 
in order, at length, to be transformed into an American. In 
these anthropological investigations, we arrive at the remarkable 
result, that certain characteristics, which constitute the principal 
difference of the races, do not easily pass into others, whereas 
those which depend only upon more or less , gradually vanish 
or degenerate, through a series of different gradations. In this 
respect the difference of the Negroes is peculiarly striking, who, 
in various particulars, especially the complexion, the hair, the 
conformation of the skull, the proportions of the countenance, 
and of the whole body, differ more from all other races than 
from each other. The Negro races of the South Sea, and the 
Indian Archipelago, who, for the most part, are derived from a 
mixture of various races, who, at so great a distance from their 
native country, must experience considerable modification of the 
Ethiopic character, yet still indicate, in every respect, their 
African descent, rather than a nearer affinity with the other 
races. On the other hand, the physiognomical characteristics 
of the Mongol, Caucasian, Malay, and American races, blend 
with each other through so many shades, that we are involun- 
tarily led to presume a common fundamental type for all these, 
in* opposition to the Ethiopic, which perhaps is most strikingly 
marked in the Mongol, and to which the above mentioned va- 
rious conformations must perhaps be referred to so many forms 
of development, occasioned by climate, as has been already as- 
serted, by a very distinguished writer on Universal History. 
