Types of Mankind: or, Ethnological Researches, Based Upon the Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania or Races and Upon their Natural, Geographical, Philological and Biblical History [Second Edition]

Types of Mankind: or, Ethnological Researches, Based Upon the Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania or Races and Upon their Natural, Geographical, Philological and Biblical History [Second Edition]

Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
1854
738 pages

J. C. Nott, M.D.
Mobile, Alabama

Geo. R. Gliddon, Egyptologist
Former U.S. Consul to Egypt

CONTENTS

  • FRONTISPIECE — Portrait or Samuel George Morton. [Steel Engraving.]
  • DEDICATION–“To the Memory of Morton”
  • PREFACE — by Geo. B. Gliddon
    • Postscriptum — by J. C. Nott
  • MEMOIR—” Notice of the Life and Scientific Labors of the late Samuel Geo. Morton, M. D.”—contributed by Prof. Henry S. Patterson, M.D.
  • SKETCH —” of the Natural Provinces of the Animal World and their Relation to the different Types of Man” — contributed by Prof. L. Agassie, LL.D. [With colored lithographic Tableau and Map.]
  • INTRODUCTION to ” Types of Mankind ” — by J. C. Nott
  • PART I.
    • I. — Biographical Distribution or Animals and the Races of Men
    • II. — General Remarks on the Types of Mankind
    • III. Specific Types — Caucasian
    • IV. — Physical History of the Jews
    • V. — the Caucasian Types carried through Egyptian Monuments
    • VI. — African Types
    • VII. — Egypt and Egyptians. [Four Lithographic Plates]
    • VIII. — Negro Types
    • IX. — American and other Types — Aboriginal Races of America
    • X. — Excerpta from Morton’s Inedited Manuscripts
    • XI. — Geology and Palæontology, in Connection with Human Origins — contributed by William Usher, M.D.
    • XII. — Hybridity or Animals, viewed in Connection with the Natural History or Mankind — by J. C. Nott
    • XIII. — Comparative Anatomy or Races — by J. C. Nott
  • PART II.
    • XIV.— The Xth Chapter of Genesis — Preliminary Remarks
      • Sect. A. — Analysis of the Hebrew Nomenclature
      • B. — Observations on, the annexed Genealogical Tableau of the “Sons of Noah”
        • Genealogical Tableau
      • C. — Observations on the accompanying “Map of the World”
        • Lithographic tinted Map, exhibiting the Countries more or less known to the ancient Writer of Xth Genesis
      • D. — the Xth Chapter of Genesis modernized, in its Nomenclature, to display popularly, and in Modern English, the Meaning of its ancient Writer
    • XV. — Biblical Ethnography:–
      • Sect. E. — Terms, universal and specific
      • F. — Structure of Genesis I., II., and III
      • G.—Cosmas-Indicopleustes
        • Cosmas’s Map [wood-cut]
      • H.—Antiquity of the Name “ADaM”
  • PART III. — Supplement — by Geo. R. Gleddon
    • Essay I. — Archæological Introduction to the Xth Chapter of Genesis.
    • II — Palaeographic Excursus on thb Art op Writing.
      • Table — “Theory of the Order of Development in Human Writings”
    • III. — Mankind’s Chronology:—
      • Introductory
      • Chronology — Egyptian
      • Chinese
      • Assyrian
      • Hebrew
      • Hindoo
  • APPENDIX I. — Notes and References to Parts I. and II.
  • II. — Alphabetical List of Subscribers to “Types of Mankind”
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