Transcriber’s Note:This e-text is based on the 1900 edition of the book. Minor punctuation errors, as well as inconsistencies in hyphenation, have been tacitly corrected; misspelled or inconsistent proper names, however, have been retained. Geographical names and names referring to tribes or nations have been harmonised.A number of illustrations have been repositioned compared to the original book version; the ‘List of Illustrations’ has been adapted accordingly.Extremely wide tables have been split and reformatted.The following passages have been corrected or need to be commented:# p.59: ‘aveolocondylean’ → ‘alveolocondylean’# p.108: Lung capacities in cubic metres are wrong; should read ‘cubic decimetres’ or ‘litres’; ‘per second’ should read ‘per minute’# p.194: ‘Canis familiaris matris opitimæ’ → ‘Canis familiaris matris optimæ’# p.286(left column of table): ‘fair hair’: ‘fair’ added according toChapter IX.# p.293: ‘Southern Mongolia’ → ‘Southern Mongolian’# p.294: ‘geographico-lingustic’ → ‘geographico-linguistic’# p.404: ‘corollay’ → ‘corollary’# pp.486,487: ‘Bornea’ → ‘Borneo’# p.493: ‘Figs. 197 and 198’ → ‘Figs. 147 and 148’# p.533: ‘as follow:’ → ‘as follows:’# p.557: ‘Venezeula’ → ‘Venezuela’# pp.578,580: ‘M.’ (metres) → ‘MM.’ (millimetres)# Footnote13: ‘orang-outan’ → ‘orang-utan’# Footnote79: ‘Feftschrift’ → ‘Festschrift’# Footnote108: ‘Amenians’ → ‘Armenians’# Footnote329: ‘Semetic’ → ‘Semitic’# Footnote599: missing footnote anchor added# Footnote631: ‘Gutemala’ → ‘Guatemala’
Transcriber’s Note:
This e-text is based on the 1900 edition of the book. Minor punctuation errors, as well as inconsistencies in hyphenation, have been tacitly corrected; misspelled or inconsistent proper names, however, have been retained. Geographical names and names referring to tribes or nations have been harmonised.
A number of illustrations have been repositioned compared to the original book version; the ‘List of Illustrations’ has been adapted accordingly.Extremely wide tables have been split and reformatted.
The following passages have been corrected or need to be commented:
# p.59: ‘aveolocondylean’ → ‘alveolocondylean’# p.108: Lung capacities in cubic metres are wrong; should read ‘cubic decimetres’ or ‘litres’; ‘per second’ should read ‘per minute’# p.194: ‘Canis familiaris matris opitimæ’ → ‘Canis familiaris matris optimæ’# p.286(left column of table): ‘fair hair’: ‘fair’ added according toChapter IX.# p.293: ‘Southern Mongolia’ → ‘Southern Mongolian’# p.294: ‘geographico-lingustic’ → ‘geographico-linguistic’# p.404: ‘corollay’ → ‘corollary’# pp.486,487: ‘Bornea’ → ‘Borneo’# p.493: ‘Figs. 197 and 198’ → ‘Figs. 147 and 148’# p.533: ‘as follow:’ → ‘as follows:’# p.557: ‘Venezeula’ → ‘Venezuela’# pp.578,580: ‘M.’ (metres) → ‘MM.’ (millimetres)# Footnote13: ‘orang-outan’ → ‘orang-utan’# Footnote79: ‘Feftschrift’ → ‘Festschrift’# Footnote108: ‘Amenians’ → ‘Armenians’# Footnote329: ‘Semetic’ → ‘Semitic’# Footnote599: missing footnote anchor added# Footnote631: ‘Gutemala’ → ‘Guatemala’