ANTHROPOGRAPHY. 
No. I.—INTRODUCTION. 
Anthropography includes observations of an anatomical, 
physiological, and pathological character. Many researches 
in this branch of Anthropology may be easily undertaken 
by the general traveller, who will find it a most interesting 
and fascinating field of study; others are of a more 
technical character, and can only be undertaken by medical 
men and Naturalists who have had previous training in the 
subjects which it embraces. The general traveller may also 
do much to advance the study of the more technical part 
by collecting specimens of skeletons, hair, and even parts of 
the body, such as the hands, feet, brain, or the entire head, 
and sending them to our laboratories or museums to have 
their characters worked out by skilled anatomists. 
The anatomical portion of the subject consists of 
observations on the external characters of the body, and on 
the comparative morphology and ontogeny of its skeletal, 
muscular, nervous, and other systems. The external 
characters of the body are best observed in the living 
subject. Materials for research are therefore abundant, 
and may generally with a little tact be readily obtained. 
The information which they yield when systematically 
studied is most important, and urgently required for the 
advancement of Anthropological science. For these 
reasons, and because a technical knowledge of anatomy 
is not essential for their study, the general traveller is 
especially recommended to devote his attention to them. 
