Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Note:
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This e-text is based on the 1900 edition of the book. Minor punctuation errors, as well as inconsistencies in hyphenation, have been tacitly corrected; misspelled or inconsistent proper names, however, have been retained. Geographical names and names referring to tribes or nations have been harmonised.

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The following passages have been corrected or need to be commented:

p. 59: ‘aveolocondylean’ → ‘alveolocondylean’
p. 108: Lung capacities in cubic metres are wrong; should read
‘cubic decimetres’ or ‘litres’; ‘per second’ should read ‘per
minute’
p. 194: ‘Canis familiaris matris opitimæ’ → ‘Canis familiaris
matris optimæ’
p. 286 (left column of table): ‘fair hair’: ‘fair’ added according
to Chapter IX.
p. 293: ‘Southern Mongolia’ → ‘Southern Mongolian’
p. 294: ‘geographico-lingustic’ → ‘geographico-linguistic’
p. 404: ‘corollay’ → ‘corollary’
pp. 486, 487: ‘Bornea’ → ‘Borneo’
p. 493: ‘Figs. 197 and 198’ → ‘Figs. 147 and 148’
p. 533: ‘as follow:’ → ‘as follows:’
p. 557: ‘Venezeula’ → ‘Venezuela’
pp. 578, 580: ‘M.’ (metres) → ‘MM.’ (millimetres)
Footnote 13: ‘orang-outan’ → ‘orang-utan’
Footnote 79: ‘Feftschrift’ → ‘Festschrift’
Footnote 108: ‘Amenians’ → ‘Armenians’
Footnote 329: ‘Semetic’ → ‘Semitic’
Footnote 599: missing footnote anchor added
Footnote 631: ‘Gutemala’ → ‘Guatemala’

_THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES._

/Edited by/ HAVELOCK ELLIS.

THE RACES OF MAN.

(_Phot. lent by Miss Godden._)]

THE RACES OF MAN:

AN OUTLINE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
AND ETHNOGRAPHY

BY

J. DENIKER, Sc.D. (/Paris/),

_Chief Librarian of the Museum of Natural History, Paris;
Honorary Fellow of the Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain; Corresponding Member of the Italian Anthropological,
Netherland Geographical, and Moscow Natural Science
Societies, etc._

WITH 176 ILLUSTRATIONS AND 2 MAPS.

LONDON

WALTER SCOTT, LIMITED

PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1900