. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . 428 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF RACES. from Champollion-Figeac,483 who has reduced them from the folio-plates of Napoleons Description de VEgypte. Fig. 266 yields the per-fect Egyptian type. From the mummy itself, now possessed by the University of Louisi-ana, at New Orleans, (and which I have personally scrutinized,) Ipresent the most valuable specimen among all known to me; inas-much as it is one of
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . 428 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF RACES. from Champollion-Figeac,483 who has reduced them from the folio-plates of Napoleons Description de VEgypte. Fig. 266 yields the per-fect Egyptian type. From the mummy itself, now possessed by the University of Louisi-ana, at New Orleans, (and which I have personally scrutinized,) Ipresent the most valuable specimen among all known to me; inas-much as it is one of the extremely rare instances where the date of adeceased Egyptian can be positively determined by documentaryevidence. Fig. Portrait (Fig. 267) of theMummy of Got-thothi-aunkh, Chief of the Artificers, whodied in the Year X. of the reignof Osorkon III. A man be-tween thirty and forty years ofage, who was alive in the yearb. c. 900; or, before a singlestone yet discovered at ancientBabylon was inscribed with cu-neatic characters. Here is thehistory of its transmission tothis country: — In 1845, Mr. Gliddon inti-mated, from Paris, to his friendMr. A. C. Harris, the most in-fluential resident in Egypt, hisdesire to procure a series of funereal antiquities to illustrate his Lectures in the UnitedStates. The letter fortunately overtook Mr. Harris during one of this gentlemans archae-ological visits at Thebes ; where accident enabled him to obtain one admirable mummy, fromthe well-known Werda, in perfect condition. It was conveyed in his own yacht to Alex-andria, with a dozen other human mummies collected at Thebes, Abydos, and Memphis,intended for Mr. Gliddon. In 1846, after fruitless efforts to ship them, fo
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