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HYBRIDITY IN THE GENUS HOMO.
BROCA.
ON THE
PHENOMENA OF HYBRIDITY
IN THE
GENUS HOMO.
BY
DR. PAUL BROCA,
SÉCRÉTAIRE GÉNÉRAL À LA SOCIÉTÉ D’ANTHROPOLOGIE DE PARIS, HONORARY FELLOW OF THE
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
EDITED,
With the Permission of the Author,
BY
C. CARTER BLAKE, F.G.S., F.A.S.L.,
HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, FOREIGN ASSOCIATE
OF THE SOCIÉTÉ D’ANTHROPOLOGIE DE PARIS, MEMBER OF THE COMITÉ
D’ARCHÉOLOGIE AMÉRICAINE DE FRANCE, ETC., ETC.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BY
LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, & ROBERTS,
PATERNOSTER ROW.
1864.
T. RICHARDS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET.
TO
RICHARD OWEN, Esq.,
F.R.S., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S.
FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PARIS, AND HONORARY
FELLOW OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,
ARE DEDICATED THESE PAGES,
OF THE RESPECT AND FRIENDSHIP OF
HIS PUPIL,
C. CARTER BLAKE.
EDITOR’S PREFACE.
The Publishing Committee of the AnthropologicalSociety have done me the honour to confide to me thetask of editing Dr. Broca’s valuable little volume. Thisduty I have now fulfilled, and hope that the members ofthe Society and the general public will experience thesame pleasure in reading the translation, as I receivedwhen first I perused the original.
The causes which led the committee to suggest thepublication of the present translation are lucidly expressedby the motto which Dr. Broca placed on his title-page.The public mind is so little acquainted with thereal facts relating to the hybridity of the Races of Man,that its investigation, “non ex vulgi opinione, sed exsano judicio,” is necessary to the efficient progress of ourscience. Such an appeal, however, necessitates that thewhole subject should be again reviewed, and to attainthis object the perusal of a work on similar principles tothat of Dr. Broca becomes the primary requisite for futureresearches. It may be said, that no work which so completelyinvestigates the whole subject of Human Hybridityhas ever been published, and the Council having confirmedthe recommendation of the Publishing Committee,viiiI have endeavoured to perform my allotted task with asmuch prospect of success as could be anticipa