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--Herodotus--how far by the moderns--Buffon-- Linnæus--Daubenton--Camper--Blumenbach--the term _Caucasian_--Cuvier--Philology as an instrument of ethnological investigation--Pigafetta--Hervas--Leibnitz-- Reland--Adelung--Klaproth--the union of Philology and of Anatomy--Prichard--its Palæontological character-- influence of Lyell’s Geology--of Whewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences 1–36