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Under “ Anatomical Observations” he will find what he 
is to note regarding them. Researches on the comparative 
morphology of man are made on the skeleton and dead 
body. They are usually undertaken by anatomists and 
medical men in an anatomical laboratory or a hospital 
where anatomical works can be consulted and are outside 
the scope of this work. As however the traveller may have 
opportunities of examining the skeleton, though unable to 
secure it for the laboratory, and may possess some anatomical 
knowledge, a few directions are given to enable him to inves¬ 
tigate its most important characters. 
The physiological part includes observations on the 
senses, the physical powers, circulation, respiration, psycho¬ 
logical development, &c. In this department the general 
traveller may make several important observations, while 
the more scientifically trained traveller will find it a still 
larger field for research. The same observation applies to 
the pathological part of the subject, which deals with abnor¬ 
malities or deviations from the usual type. 
These several branches of Anthropography are treated 
of in this work from the point of view of the general 
traveller, so as to guide him how and what to observe. At 
the same time many of the outlines of investigations given 
will be useful to the more scientifically expert traveller, and 
possibly suggest others to his mind. 
For the purpose of stimulating medical men practising 
or stationed in various parts of the world to devote attention 
to Anthropography, as well as to the advancement of our 
knowledge of disease, some sections of a more purely medical 
character have been added to this part of the work. Some 
of these sections might more accurately have been placed in 
a different order, or even in the second part of the work— 
Ethnography—but it has been thought better to keep all 
the medical sections together near those of an anatomical and 
physiological nature, even at the expense of consistency in 
classification. 
J. G. G. 
