238 METHODS AND RESULTS OF ETHNOLOGY. 



the differences between the Mongolians and the 

 Xanthochroi are out of all proportion greater than 

 those between the Faunas and Floras of Central 

 and Eastern Asia. But whatever the difficulties 

 in the way of the detailed application of this com- 

 parison of the distribution of men with that of 

 animals, it is well worthy of being borne in mind, 

 and carried as far as it will go. 



Apart from all speculation, a very curious fact 

 regarding the distribution of the persistent modi- 

 fications of mankind becomes apparent on inspect- 

 ing an Ethnological chart, projected in such a 

 manner that the Pacific Ocean occupies its centre. 

 Such a chart exhibits an Australian area occupied 

 by dark smooth-haired people, separated by an in- 

 complete inner zone of dark woolly-haired Negritos 

 and Negroes, from an outer zone of comparatively 

 pale and smooth-haired men, occupying the Amer- 

 icas, and nearly all Asia * and North Africa, f 



Such is a brief sketch of the characters and dis- 

 tribution of the persistent modifications, or stocks, 

 of mankind at the present day. If we seek for 

 direct evidence of how long this state of things has 

 lasted, we shall find little enough, and that little 

 far from satisfactory. Of the eleven different 

 stocks enumerated, seven have been known to us 

 for less than 400 years; and of these seven not one 



[* Hindostan excepted. — 1894.] 

 [t Egypt excepted.— 1894.] 



