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SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1888. 



aud the Ethiopian of Africa, and that all existing individuals of the 

 species can be arranged around these types or somewhere or other be- 

 tween them." 

 The Ethiopian or Negroid race, may be divided as follows : 



A. Africans or typical iS^egroes. 



B. Hottentots and Bushmen. 



G. Oceanic negroes or Melanesians. 

 B. Negritos. 

 The Mongolian type: 



A. Eskimo. 



B. Typical Mongolian races of Asia. 

 a The Malay. 



B. Brown Polynesians. 

 B. American Indians. " 



The Caucasian or white division includes : 



A. Xanthochroi. 



B. Melanochroi. 



The Dravidians of India, The Veddahs of Ceylon, and probably the 

 Aiuos of Japan and the Maoutze of China belong to this race, which 

 may have contributed something to the mixed character of some tribes 

 of ludo-China and the Polynesian Islands, and given at least the 

 characters of the hair to the otherwise Negroid inhabitants of Aus- 

 tralia. 



Modern Jews are thus tabulated by Mr. Joseph Jacobs : 



.4. Jews by religion ami birth: 



Ashkenazim 



Sepbardum 



Samaritans 



/>'. Jews by religion, not birth 



Falashas 



Karaites 



Daggatoum 



Beui Israel 



Cochin 



Jews by birth, not religion. 



Chnetar or Anussim 



Mainlines 



G'did al Islam 



C. 



Cotintry. 



Teutonia, Slavonia 



Romance, Levant, Africa. 

 Nablns 



Abyssinia 

 Crimea . . . 

 Sahara . . . 

 Bombay .. 

 Cochin ... 



Balearic . . . 

 Salonichi.. 

 Khorassan . 



Nnmber. 



6, 500, 000 

 4-25, 000 



ir.o 



(75,000) 



50, 000 



(3, 000 



10,000 



6, 500 



1,600 



(12,000) 

 (i, 000 

 4,000 

 2,000 



Per 

 cent. 



92-8 

 6-1 



l-l 



0-2 



The recent troubles in Bulgaria have evoked a number of vohnnes 

 t reating upon the ethnology of the peoples more or less intimately en- 

 gaged in the controversy. The works of Lewis Leger, Dr. Kanitz, and 

 Leon Brunei de Eosny may be consulted with profit. 



Professor Packard brings together in two articles, published in the 

 American Naturalist, a great deal of interesting information respect- 

 ing the former southward range of the Eskimo in Labrador. Dr. Franz 

 Boas has in several communications made us well acquainted with his 



