[34] Hale, Natives of Australia, etc. See American Journal of Science, second series, vol. i, p. 302, May 1846; extract from the account of C. Wilkes’ Expedition: Narrative of the U. S. Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842, vol. vi, “Ethnography and Philology.”
[35] Voyage de l’Astrolabe: Zoologie, vol. i, p. 43.
[36] Even after the assertions of M. de Quatrefages in the Unité des Races Humaines, p. 162, and following, we have not thought ourselves justified in changing our opinions on the subject of the Australians, which have lately been confirmed at the Anthropological Society; a Mr. O’Rourke, an eyewitness, having answered M. de Quatrefages (Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie, 21 June, 1860).
[37] J. Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage, etc., 1835, p. 448.
[38] J. Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage, p. 490.
[39] See Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Comptes Rendus, vol. v, p. 42. [We should very much like to know at what period our author imagines this to have been the case, and whether he considers that these apes were the “men of the day.”—Editor.]
[40] “Memorandum on an Unknown Forest Race,” etc., Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1855, vol. xxiv, p. 207.
[41] M. Ehrenberg, speaking one day of the unknown centre of Africa, said to us, “that it might not be impossible to find there men so different from us that we ought to make of them, willingly or unwillingly, a special group.” I quote these words in no way with the design of presuming that there is such an order of beings; but in order to show that the father of the naturalists of Europe, the friend of Humboldt, believes in something else than the unity of the human species, because he admits that a generic plurality is possible.
[42] R. Owen, On the Characters of the Class Mammalia, 1857, p. 20, note. The illustrious savant has himself treated on this subject, ex professo, in the catalogue of the collection in the College of Surgeons.
[43] “The orang-outang is capable of a kind of laugh when pleasantly excited,” J. Grant, “Account of the Structure of an Orang-Outang” (Edinburgh Journal of Science, vol. ix, 1828).