116 CATALOGUE OF THE MAMMALIA OF 
MAMMALIA, Linn. 
Sus-Ciass 1. GYRENCEPHALA, Owen. 
Section 1. UNGUICULATA, Ray. 
ORDER 1. BIMANA, Cwvier. 
1, HOMO, Linn. 
1. H. Sapiens var. Asus, Zinn. Man. 
e Europeus, et 8 Indicus ( Gipsies). 
Not being members of the Anthropological Society, we shall 
not venture to expatiate on the history of the human inhabitants 
of our counties: we shall therefore merely indicate the existence 
of the species, and remark, that the Northern yellow-haired 
division of the European type (a@ Europeus, capillis flavescen- 
tibus) is, in our islands, sustaining a severe “struggle for 
existence” against its Southern black-haired rival, and that 
‘natural selection” appears to have an unaccountable predilec- 
tion for the black eyes of the latter, and to be bent upon the 
elimination of those blue eyes, with which poets have delighted 
to adorn our Northern Beauties. 
This curious question has recently been ably mooted in a 
popular journal; and a district like ours, in which the fair 
Northern type still predominates, is very favourable for its 
further investigation. 
Prehistoric man is, we are glad to see, likely to receive the 
attention he merits at the hands of our late President and Dr. 
Embleton, and the interesting paper read by our fellow- member 
Dr. Wilson, of Castle Eden, at the late meeting of the British 
Association, on the habits of life among our pit population, and 
their moral and physical results, is a contribution to recent 
anthropology, which we hope will lead to a series of similar 
papers on those sections of our population, whose habits are 
peculiar and characteristic of the district. Our proximity to 
one of the great centres of the gipsy race (6 Indicus), Yetholm, 
suggests another field of inquiry of much interest. 
