ethnoiogy

[Gr. ethnos = a body of men, a nation, and logos =a discourse.] The science which treats of the various races of mankind, and at tempts to trace them to their origin. It developed from ethnography, of which it is the extension, and to which it stands in a relation akin to that which geology po e es to geography. Itself has now been merged in anthropology, of which it is only one branch, though an important one. Anthropol ogy, again, is a branch of biology. "To give to ethnology those important details which it craves, respecting the persistence of races." - Notes and Queries, Oct. 16, 1858. e-tho-log-ic, eth-o-log-Ic-al, a. [Eng. etholPertaining or ogy.