Afer [Greek:  d].  Niger, phlegmaticus, laxus. Pilis
                               atris, contortuplicatis. Cute holosericea.
                               Naso simo. Labiis tumidis.
                               Feminis sinus pudoris.
                               Mammae lactantes prolixae.
                               Vafer, segnis, negligens. Ungit se
                               pingui. Regitur Arbitrio.

Monstrosus [Greek:  e].  Solo (a) et arte (b c) variat.: 
                            a. Alpini parvi, agiles, timidi.
                               Patagonici magni, segnes.
                            b. Monorchides ut minus fertiles: 
                               Hottentotti.
                               Junceae puellae, abdomine attenuato: 
                               Europoeae.
                            c. Macrocephali capiti conico:  Chinenses.
                               Plagiocephali capite antice compresso: 
                               Canadenses.

Turn a few pages further on in the same volume, and there appears, with a fine impartiality in the distribution of capitals and sub-divisional headings:—­

III.  FERAE.

Dentes primores superiores sex, acutiusculi.  Canini solitarii.

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12.  CANIS. Dentes primores superiores VI.:  laterales
                     longiores distantes:  intermedii lobati. 
                     Inferiores VI.:  laterales lobati.
                     Laniarii solitarii, incurvati. 
                     Molares VI. s.  VII. (pluresve quam in reliquis).

familiaris [Greek:  i].  C. cauda (sinistrorsum) recurvata....

domesticus [Greek:  a]. auriculis erectis, cauda subtus lanata.

sagax [Greek:  b]. auriculis pendulis, digito spurio ad
                          tibias posticas.

grajus [Greek:  g]. magnitudine lupi, trunco curvato, rostro
                          attenuato, &c. &c.

Linnaeus’ definition of what he considers to be mere varieties of the species Man are, it will be observed, as completely free from any allusion to linguistic peculiarities as those brief and pregnant sentences in which he sketches the characters of the varieties of the species Dog.  “Pilis nigris, naribus patulis” may be set against “auriculis erectis, cauda subtus lanata;” while the remarks on the morals and manners of the human subject seem as if they were thrown in merely by way of makeweight.

Buffon, Blumenbach (the founder of ethnology as a special science), Rudolphi, Bory de St. Vincent, Desmoulins, Cuvier, Retzius, indeed I may say all the naturalists proper, have dealt with man from a no less completely zoological point of view; while, as might have been expected, those who have been least naturalists, and most linguists, have most neglected the zoological method, the neglect culminating in those who have been altogether devoid of acquaintance with anatomy.