[7] Quoy et Gaimard, _Observat. sur la constitution physique des Papous_, reproduit dans Lesson. _Complement des Œuvres de Buffon_, t. iii., Paris, 1829. [8] Domeny de Rienzi, _l’Oceanie_, t. iii, p. 303. Paris, 1837. [9] Maury, _La terre et l’homme_, p. 365. Paris, 1847. [10] Latham, _The Natural History of the Varieties of Man_, p. 213. London, 1850. Dr. Latham designates the Malays by the somewhat fantastic name, of Protonesians. There are a great number of neologisms of this kind in his work. [11] Some geographers say that Waigiou is a large Island; but they give no dimensions. It is, however, scarcely as large as the Island of Majorca. It is of an irregular form, long and narrow; it is about 80 leagues in circumference (Dumont d’Urville in Rienzi, _l’Oceanie_). It is only 25 leagues long and 10 leagues broad, says Henricy (_Histoire de l’Oceanie._ Paris, 1845.) The Island of Majorca is only 22 leagues in length by 16 leagues in breadth. Three races united in such a small territory, cannot long remain strangers to each other. [12] Lesson, _loc. cit._ t. ii. p. 19. [13] Davis, _Crania Britannica_. Introduction, p. 8, note. [14] These geographical denominations are certainly not irreproachable; they have even the inconvenience of giving rise to the false idea, that all races of the same type originated in the same region; that all the Whites came from the Caucasus, all the Mongolians from Mongolia, the Blacks from Nigritia, even the Van-Diemen islanders. I have, however, thought proper to retain these denominations, as they are generally in use, and have no zoological signification. Such is not the case with the denominations adopted by certain authors derived from the colour of the skin. Thus the Caucasians were termed the _white_, the Mongolians the _yellow_, the Ethiopian the _black_, the Malayo-Polynesian the _brown_, and finally, the American the _red_ race. It has been shown that the American type alone includes red, brown, black, white and yellow races. There are brown races in the American, and even in the Caucasian type. All the black races do not belong to the Ethiopian type; and finally, the Malayo-Polynesian type comprises races of colours as various as those belonging to the American type. A classification founded on differences of colour would lead to numerous and serious errors.