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The Progress of Ethnology: An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of Man — John Shaqi

The Progress of Ethnology: An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of ManBartlett, John Russell

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The Progress of Ethnology: An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of Man

Name: The Progress of Ethnology: An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of Man
Author: Bartlett, John Russell

Bartlett, John Russell

Anthropology -- History; Ethnology -- History

Histoire d'établissement Français de Madagascar, pendant la
     restauration, précédée d'une description de cette île, et
     suivie de quelques considérations politiques et commerciales
     sur l'expédition et la colonisation de Madagascar. Par M.
     Carayon, 8vo. Paris, 1845.

     Histoire et Géographie de Madagascar, depuis la découverte de
     l'île en 1506, jusqu'au récit des derniers événements de
     Tamative; par M. Descartes. 8vo. Paris, 1846.

     Madagascar expedition de 1829. Par M. le Capitaine de frégate
     Jourdain. _Revue de l'Orient_, tom. ix. April, 1846.

     A short memoir on Madagascar is contained in the "Bulletin de
     la Société de Géographie, July, 1845," by M. Bona Christave.

     Etchings of a Whaling Voyage, with notes of a sojourn in the
     Island of Zanzibar, and a history of the whale fishery, by
     J.R. Browne. 8vo. New York, 1846.


EGYPT.

I have hesitated, in the superficial view I propose to take in noticing
the ethnological and archæological researches of the day, as to whether
I ought to speak of the land of the Pharaohs. The explorations have been
on so grand a scale, and the results so astounding, that one is lost in
amazement in attempting to keep pace with them.

In England, France, Germany and Italy, Egyptian archæology is the most
fruitful topic among the learned. In Paris, it forms the theme of
lectures by the most distinguished archæologists, and the subject
absorbs so much interest in Germany, that the King of Prussia has
established a professorship at the Royal University for Egyptian
antiquities and history, which he has assigned to Professor Lepsius, the
most accomplished scholar in Egyptian learning, and who was at the head
of the scientific commission sent by his majesty to explore the valley
of the Nile.

It will be remembered that in addition to the immense and costly work
published by Napoleon, there have since been published the great
national works of Champollion, by the French government, and of
Rossellini by the Tuscan government. These are to be immediately
followed by the great work of Lepsius, who has just returned from Egypt,
laden with innumerable treasures, the results of three years of most
laborious and successful explorations. This undertaking is at the
expense of the King of Prussia, one of the most enlightened monarchs of
Europe, and who, at the present moment, is doing more in various parts
of the world for the advancement of science than any now living.

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