Crania Ægyptiaca / Or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography Derived from Anatomy, History and the Monuments

by Samuel George Morton

CRANIA ÆGYPTIACA

OR,

OBSERVATIONS ON EGYPTIAN ETHNOGRAPHY,

DERIVED FROM

ANATOMY, HISTORY AND THE MONUMENTS.

BY

SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON, M.D.,

AUTHOR OF “CRANIA AMERICANA;” MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, ETC. ETC.

From the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. IX.

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PHILADELPHIA:

JOHN PENINGTON, CHESTNUT STREET.

LONDON:

MADDEN & CO., LEADENHALL STREET.

1844.

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WILLIAM S. YOUNG, PRINTER.

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TO

GEORGE R. GLIDDON, ESQ.,

LATE UNITED STATES CONSUL FOR THE CITY OF CAIRO; AUTHOR OF “ANCIENT EGYPT;”

&c. &c. &c.,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

AS A MEMENTO

OF THE ESTEEM AND FRIENDSHIP OF

THE AUTHOR.

Philadelphia,

February 23, 1844.

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OBSERVATIONS

ON

EGYPTIAN ETHNOGRAPHY,

DERIVED FROM

ANATOMY, HISTORY AND THE MONUMENTS.

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Read before the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia, December 16, 1842, and January 6, and April 6, 1843.

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