A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt.
- Lemonnier, Céran
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![cording to the countries in which they dwell. They have domesticated the reindeer as well as the dog. They live upon the flesh of these animals, upon the blubber of whales, and upon a kind of bread made of bones, lichens and the pounded bark of the birch tree. ETHIOPIAN VARIETY. Skull compressed; nose flattened; muzzle projecting; facial angle acute; lips thick; hair more or less frizzled; skin more or less black. ATegroes. Hair woolly; skull compressed, and forehead depressed; nose flat; incisive teeth projecting; skin black. [Africa from the Senegal and the Niger to beyond the southern tro- pic] Negroes of Mozambique. Hair woolly; skin black; skull less compressed than among the Ethiopians; forehead almost as projecting as among Eu- ropeans; incisive teeth vertical; nose but little flattened. [Eastern side of Africa upon the Indian ocean.] Papous. Hair very thick, and moderately woolly; forehead high; nose a little flattened; face tolerably regular. [Coast of New Guinea.] Jllfourous. Hair smooth and black; beard thin; skin black; limbs slender, and of a length disproportioned to the body; nose much widened; forehead depressed and compressed. [Inte- rior of New Guinea and of New Holland.] Hottentots. Facial angle seventy-five degrees ; hair black or brownish, very short and woolly; teeth oblique and bent; the olecra- nean cavity of the shoulder having a hole in it; skin more or less yellow, never black; nose immoderately large; top of the head flattened; and of a disgusting filthiness. Unso- cial, taciturn and fearful, they live in caverns, and hardly know the use of fire.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136427_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
