Three other specimens by which, although they are partly deformed on purpose and partly by disease, the norma verticalis still is well elucidated. 14. Caucasian. Turk, de Asch. 15. Mongolian. Calmuck (Dec. n. Tab. xiv.), de Asch. 16. Ethiopian. Ethiop. (Dec. II. Tab. xvn.), de Asch. Three skulls of infants, clearly demonstrating the norma verticalis. 17. Caucasian. Jewish girl (Dec. in. Tab. xxvni.). 18. Mongolian. Burat girl (Dec. in. Tab. xxix.), de Asch. 19. Ethiopian. New-born Ethiop. (Dec. in. Tab. xxx.), Billmann, Cassel surgeon. Specimens remarkable for the manifest transitions by which they connect the different varieties of mankind. These hold a middle place between the Caucasian and Mongolian. 20. Skull of a Cossack of the Don (Dec. I. Tab. iv.), de Asch. 21. Kirgis-Cossack (Dec. n. Tab. xni.), de Asch. 22. Another of the same, de Asch. These between the Caucasian and Ethiopian. 23. Egyptian mummy (Dec. i. Tab. i.). 24. Genuine Zingari (Dec. n. Tab. n.), Pataki, physician of Claudinopolis. These between the Mongolian and American. 25. 26. Esquimaux (Dec. in. Tabb. xxiv. xxv.), Jo. Loretz. Skulls deformed by particular arts in infancy. 27. Macrocephalic, probably Tartar (Dec. I. Tab. in.), de Asch. 28. Carib female (Dec. in. Tab. xx.), Banks.
The lecture delivered by the Chief Physician-Royal, Blumenbach, in the sitting of the Royal Society, of the 3rd August, consisted of a Spicilegium observationum de generis humani varietate nativa, a subject, that since his inaugural dissertation which appeared under this title nearly sixty years ago, the author has always taken pleasure in working at. It was only something on the national characteristics of the three chief races among the five, into which he had thought it most according to nature to divide mankind. Therefore, first of the Caucasian stem, or middle race; and of its two extremes, which are secondly, the Ethiopian, and thirdly, the Mongolian.Of the first race we have but one skull, but that of the very greatest interest. An old Hippocratic macrocephalus from the Black Sea, exactly answering to the description given by the father of medicine in his golden treatise On air, water, and soil. Blumenbach owed this present for his rich collection of national skulls to the kindness of the excellent and much travelled physician of Augsburg, Dr Stephan, who, at the very time when the Russian Government had the ancient funeral mounds of the kings of the Bosphorus opened, which exist on the water-shed of the steppe hills in the vicinity of Kertch (the Panticapseum of the ancients) happened to be there, and obtained the skull in
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