Fauna americana : being a description of the mammiferous animals inhabiting North America / by Richard Harlan.
- Richard Harlan
- Date:
- 1825
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Fauna americana : being a description of the mammiferous animals inhabiting North America / by Richard Harlan. 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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![Body for the most part naked, and defenceless, those parts being most hairy, which in animals are most bare, viz. the axillae and pubes. Finally, Man is the only being that worships God, and an- ticipates immortality. Species....]. Homo Sapiens. Characters of the species, are those peculiar to the genus. Inhabit all parts of the earth, omnivorous, dis- puting for territory; uniting together for the ex- press purpose of destroying their own species. Varieties....!. American Race. Char. Face rather large, features well pro- nounced ; nose sufficiently projecting, frequently aquiline; hair black, strong, glossy and dense on the head, rather flattened, a transverse section be- ing rather more oval than a section of the hair of the Caucasian, seldom becomes gray; beard rath- er sparse by nature. Facial angle rather oblique, averaging about 80; the lower jaw is large and robust; teeth very strong, with broad crowns; chin well formed; lips rather tumid ; cheek bones prominent, but round- ed ; the expression of the countenance is austere, never vacant, sometimes ferocious. The orbits of the eyes are larger, and more nearly quadran- gular than those of the Mongolian; the transverse diameter of the American is one inch six-tenths.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21126689_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
