CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE Notes on Scalping. By Richard F. Burton Abnormal Distortion of the Wrist. By Charles H. Chambers Inquiry into Consanguineous Marriages and Pure Races. By Dr. E. Dally Peyrerius, and Theological Criticism. By Philalethes 65 On the Importance of Methodical Classification in American Researches. By A. De Bellecombe. Translated by W. H. Garrett, Esq., F.A.S.L.... 191 The Gipsies in Egypt. By Alfred von Kremer On the Ideas of Species and Race applied to Man and Human Society. By Slavery. By James Reddie, Esq., F.A.S.L. Anthropology at the British Association. A.D. 1864 Burton's Mission to Dahome. By W. Winwood Reade, F.A.S.L,, F.R.G.S. 335 JOURNAL OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. Carter Blake on the Anthropological Papers read at Newcastle G. E. Roberts and Professor Busk on the Opening of a Cist of the Captain Eustace W. Jacob on Indian Tribes of Vancouver's Island Dr. James Hunt on the Negro's Place in Nature C. R. Markham on Quartz Cutting Instruments from Chanduy Dr. F. R. Fairbank on Flint Arrow Heads from Canada Count Oscar Reichenbach on the Vitality of the Negro Race Dr. C. G. Carus on the Construction of the Upper Jaw of a Greenlander Guppy on the Capabilities of the Negro for Civilisation Burton and Carter Blake on Skulls from Annabom in the West Thurnam on the Two Principal forms of Crania in the Early Britons Bollaert on the Paleography of the New World Bendyshe on the Precautions which ought to have been taken to ensure THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL REVIEW. FEBRUARY, 1864. ON HUMAN HAIR AS A RACE-CHARACTER, EXAMINED BY THE AID OF THE MICROSCOPE. BY DR. PRUNER-BEY.* PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. FROM the highest antiquity has the human hair attracted the attention of observers; but, down to a very recent period, it was merely the contour and the external aspect which were taken into consideration. These two characters were thus at all times indicated as distinguishing nations and individuals. The terms λειότριχες, συλότριχες, Çavooi, #vppoi, etc., constantly occur in Greek authors and their suc cessors. Modern science has somewhat enlarged the field of observation as regards colour; but it was only by the use of the microscope that we are enabled to add fresh characters to those accessible to the naked eye. It is by these means that Heusinger was enabled to indicate the elliptic form of the hair of the Negro. Koelliker confirmed this observation, and added other characters. Erdl applied the microscope to the study of the colour in animals. Brown finally, according to the tendency of the American school, published in the remarkable work of Schoolcraft, his researches, in which he endeavours to establish specific characters, or nearly so, for the hair of the Aryan, the Negro, the Chinese, and the American, both in the form of the bulb and the body, and also in the structure of the latter, at least as regards the presence or the absence of the so-called medullary canal. This question has for many years excited my warmest interest. * Read before the Anthropological Society of Paris, March 19, 1863. VOL. II.-NO. IV. B |