. Anthropology. derable importance, and are thepoint de depart of other subordinate characters, which, in theirturn, assist in distinguishing men and animals. It is natural,therefore, that anthropologists should early have bethought them ofsome decided methods of estimating their value. Various methods,have been proposed; the one most in vogue is that of the facial angles. This was one of the first attempts of craniometry. This branchof anthropology, so cultivated at the present time, has been hitherto Chap, i.] PHYSICAL CHAEACTERS. 41 studied especially with reference to the comparison of rac
. Anthropology. derable importance, and are thepoint de depart of other subordinate characters, which, in theirturn, assist in distinguishing men and animals. It is natural,therefore, that anthropologists should early have bethought them ofsome decided methods of estimating their value. Various methods,have been proposed; the one most in vogue is that of the facial angles. This was one of the first attempts of craniometry. This branchof anthropology, so cultivated at the present time, has been hitherto Chap, i.] PHYSICAL CHAEACTERS. 41 studied especially with reference to the comparison of races, and?vviU consequently be treated at length in the second part of thiswork, which is specially set apart for that purpose. We will notnow anticipate the subject further than by mentioning a few of themore striking characters which distinguish Man in general fromanimals. Facial Angles. The facial angles are four in number. The most ancient is theangle of Camper. It is formed by two Hnes, one called the hori-. FiG. 4.—HH, Horizontal of Camper; FF, Facial line of Camper; FAH, Tmeangle of Camper; F B K, Angle of Greoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvler, its vertexat the edge of the incisors ; 1C M, Angle of Jules Cloqaet, its vertex at the alveolarborder; O D H, Angle of Jacquart, the sub-nasal point; O D, Facial line ofJacquart. The most useful angle is that of Cloquet, with its vertex at C, but whose facialline, C I, impinges, not at the most projecting point of the forehead, but imme-•diately above the superciliary arches, zontal, H H, Fig. 4, which its author marked as a principal guide,over the auditory opening, and the inferior border of the nares;the other, called the facial, F F, tangent to the two most pro-minent points of the face—the glabella, or central point of theforehead, above; the surface anterior to the incisor teeth, below. 42 PHYSICAL CHAEACTEKS. [Chap. i. The original intention of Pierre Camper* -was to give to artistsa method of comparing the heads of livin
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