Category: Archaeology & Anthropology

Man and His Migrations

Page The Natural or Physical history of Man--the Civil--their difference--divisions of the Natural or Physical history--Anthropology--Ethnology--how far pursued by the ancients--Herodotus--how far by the moderns--Buffon-- Linnæus--Daubenton--Camper--Blumenbach--the term _Cauca...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

Page The Natural or Physical history of Man--the Civil--their difference--divisions of the Natural or Physical history--Anthropology--Ethnology--how far pursued by the ancients-...

2. CHAPTER II.

Ethnology--its objects--the chief problems connected with it--prospective questions--transfer of populations-- Extract from Knox--correlation of certain parts of the body to cer...

3. CHAPTER III.

Methods--the science one of observation and deduction rather than experiment--classification--on mineralogical, on zoological principles--the first for Anthropology, the second...

4. CHAPTER IV.

Details of distribution--their conventional character-- convergence from the circumference to the centre-- Fuegians; Patagonian, Pampa, and Chaco Indians-- Peruvians--D’Orbigny’...

5. CHAPTER V.

The Ugrians of Lapland, Finland, Permia, the Ural Mountains and the Volga--area of the light-haired families-- Turanians--the Kelts of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Gaul--the Goths-...

6. CHAPTER VI.

7. CHAPTER I.

The Natural or Physical history of Man--the Civil--their difference-- divisions of the Natural or Physical history--Anthropology-- Ethnology--how far pursued by the ancients--He...

8. CHAPTER II.

Ethnology--its objects--the chief problems connected with it-- prospective questions--transfer of populations--Extract from Knox--correlation of certain parts of the body to cer...

9. CHAPTER III.

Methods--the science one of observation and deduction rather than experiment--classification--on mineralogical, on zoological principles--the first for Anthropology, the second...

10. CHAPTER IV.

Details of distribution--their conventional character--convergence from the circumference to the centre--Fuegians; Patagonian, Pampa, and Chaco Indians--Peruvians--D’Orbigny’s c...

11. CHAPTER V.

The Ugrians of Lapland, Finland, Permia, the Ural Mountains and the Volga--area of the light-haired families--Turanians--the Kelts of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Gaul--the Goths--...

12. CHAPTER VI.

Our plan is now to take up the different lines of migration at the points where they were respectively broken off. This was at their different points of contact with Asia. The f...

13. Part II. Calycifloræ. Each 3_s._ 6_d.

PRIMITIÆ ET NOVITIÆ FAUNÆ ET FLORÆ MADERÆ ET PORTUS SANCTI. Two Memoirs on the Ferns, Flowering Plants, and Land Shells of Madeira and Porto Santo. By R. T. LOWE, M.A. 12mo, 6_s...