Some Observations on the Segregation 

 of Human Types in Spain. 



By ROSE HAIG THOMAS. 



A PAPER on " Heredity and the Jew," by Dr. 

 Redclyffe N. Salaman, appeared in " Genetics," Vol. 

 I., Part III., in which the author dealt with the 

 Ethnology of the Jewish people, first historically 

 tracing the probable origins of the Sephardic and 

 Ashkenazic, the two Jewish types, and illustrating 

 with photographs of ancient Assyrian sculpture and 

 modern portraits the persistence of the Jewish type 

 from those early times down to our own. He pointed 

 out evidence of the working of Mendel's law in the 

 offspring of marriages between Jews and Gentiles, 

 and came to the conclusion that the Gentile facial 

 characters were dominant over the Jewish. 



The great interest of Dr. Salaman's article recalled 

 to my memory some observations made on human 

 type segregation in Spain contained in the following 

 notes, which do not pretend to be more than a mere 

 sketch ; the notes were jotted down during a journey 

 through Spain in the spring of 1908 as an attempt 

 to record whether the two types, i.e., Visigoths and 

 Moors, could still be traced, each preserving some- 

 thing of its purity of race. 



The reader should be reminded that the first 

 invasion of the Moors took place about a. d. 711, and 

 the Moorish dynasties in Spain extended over a 



