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THE

NATURAL HISTORY

OF

THE VARIETIES OF MAN.




THE

NATURAL HISTORY

OF

THE VARIETIES OF MAN.


                                  BY

                  ROBERT GORDON LATHAM, M.D., F.R.S.,

               LATE FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;
    ONE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON;
           CORRESPONDING MEMBER TO THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY,
                            NEW YORK, ETC.

                                LONDON:

                   JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW.

                               M.D.CCCL.

                                LONDON:
              Printed by S. & J. BENTLEY and HENRY FLEY,
                       Bangor House, Shoe Lane.

                                  TO

                          EDWIN NORRIS, ESQ.,

                     OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY,
             TO WHOSE VALUABLE INFORMATION AND SUGGESTIONS
       MANY OF THE STATEMENTS AND OPINIONS OF THE PRESENT VOLUME
                           OWE THEIR ORIGIN,

                 ~The following Pages are Inscribed~,

                                                         BY HIS FRIEND,

                                                             THE AUTHOR.

  London, July 25th, 1850.




PREFACE.


If the simple excellence of a book were a sufficient reason for making
it the only one belonging to the sciences which it professed to
illustrate, few writers would be desirous of attempting a systematic
work upon the Natural History of their species, after the admirable
Physical History of Mankind, by the late and lamented Dr.