No doubt this had a share in his preparation for his future work in melanesia, closed early by the failure of health that brought him, after a few more years, to his grave.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
So the first division into melanesia and Polynesia has in latest times come to be of value, and the dogma once fixed has remained.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
It is thence that its diverse representatives have radiated, and, some going east, some west, have given rise to the black populations of melanesia and Africa.
"A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients"
Edward Tyson