Volume 1

Memoirs read before the Anthropological Society of London.

Date:
1865-1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs read before the Anthropological Society of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    BEAD BEFOKE THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. I.—On the Negro's Place in Nature.* By James HtjnTj Ph.D., F.S.A., F.E.S.L., F.A.S.L., Foreign Associate of tlie Anthropological Society of Paris, Honorary Fellow of the Ethnological Society of London, Corresponding Member of the Upper Hesse Society for Natural and Medical . Science, etc., etc., and President of the Anthropological Society of London. I PEOPOSB in this communication to discuss the physical and mental characters of the Ne^ro, with a view of determining not only his position in animated nature, but also the station to be assigned to him in the genus homo. I shall necessarily have to go over a wide field, and cannot hope to treat the subject in an exhaustive manner. I shall be amply satisfied if I succeed in directing the attention of my scientific friends to a study of this most important and hitherto nearly neglected branch of the great science of Anthropology. It is not a little remarkable that the subject I propose to bring before you this evening is one which has never been dis- cussed before a scientific audience in this Metropolis. In France, in America, and in Germany, the physical and mental characters of the Negro have been frequently discussed, and England alone has neglected to pay that attention to the question which its importance demands. I shall, therefore, make no apology for bringing this subject in its entirety under your consideration, although I should have preferred discussing each point in detail. I hope, however, this even- ing to bring before you facts and opinions that will lay a good foundation for future inquiry and discussion. Although I shall * Eead Nov. 17, 1863. B