The races of man [antikvár]

AN ANALYTICAL SYNOPSIS OF THE NATÜEAL HISTORY OF MAN HNE of the objects proposed by Dr. Pickering, a distinguished member of the scientific corps attached to the United States Exploring Expedition, was an inquiry into the varieties of the human family ; and he thought it highly important that the geographical boundaries of those races shoidd be correctly defined, a point of considerable interest and afibrding no small assistance to the whole study of Ethnology. The results of his labours are given in an elaborate and very interesting quarto volume, the seventh of the series pubhshed under the superintendence of the Grovernment of the United States. "When the work appeared last year, it attracted no small degree of attention in the scientific circles, accompanied at the same time with a feeling of regret, that the very high price (three guineas) at which it was pubhshed would altogether close it to thousands, who otherwise had most gladly availed themselves of the very iuteresting and valuable information it contains. This difficulty, the enterprise of a British publisher has removed; and the whole work, as it appeared in the American edition, together with its accurate and useful engravings, illustrative of the races of man, is now to be obtained for a few shillings. In presenting this valuable work to the public in its present form, it has been thought desirable to give, both to the general reader, and also to students in our schools and universities, an epitomised description of the most generally received opinions with regard to the Physical History of