FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. ) 
2. The second, or Mongoloid group, have for the most part 
“‘yellowish-brown or reddish-brown skins, and dark eyes, the hair 
being long, black and straight.” Their skulls range between the 
extremes of long-headedness and broad-headedness. The group in- 
cludes ‘‘the Mongol, Tibetan, Chinese, Polynesian, Esquimaux and 
American races.” 
3. The third, or Xanthochroic group, have ‘pale skins, blue eyes, 
and abundant fair hair. Their skulls, like those of the Mongoloid 
group, range between the extremes” of long and broad-headedness. 
“The Slavonians, Teutons, Scandinavians and the fair Celtic-speak- 
ing people are the chief representatives” of this type, but it extends 
“into North Africa and Western Asia.” 
4, The dark whites, or Melanochroi, constitute the fourth group. 
They are “ pale-complexioned people with dark hair and eyes, and 
generally long, but sometimes broad skulls.” The group includes 
“the Iberians or Basques and ‘Dark Celts’ of Western Europe, and 
the dark-complexioned white people of the shores of the Mediter- 
ranean and of Western Asia and Persia.” Professor Huxley is 
inclined to hold that the Melanochroi are not a distinct group, but 
result from a mixture of Australioids and Xanthochroi, or fair 
whites. 
Tt will be noticed that this classification brings together the widely 
separated Negroes and Negritos, neither of which races is maritime. 
The Australians are likewise ranked with the Todas and some other 
tribes of the Dekhan, though neither branch has reached a stage of 
civilization that would enable it to build ships and cross seas. From 
what Professor Huxley says in regard to the origin of the Melanochroi, 
or dark whites, it seems fair to infer that he would explain these 
difficulties by the hypothesis of a once continuous belt of Negro popu- 
lation from New Guinea to Africa, and a once continuous belt of 
Australioid populations from Australia to Britain. As these two 
belts cover to a great extent the same ground, we have another diffi- 
culty which we must solve by assuming the intrusion of either the 
one race or the other, and either Australioid or Negro conquest. 
These difficulties suggest, that possibly after all, Huxley’s classifi- 
cation does not indicate relationship or common descent. The Negroes 
and Negritos may resemble each other, not because they are of the 
same stock, but on account of the fact that the sum total of their sur- 
roundings, or in other words, of their environment, is similar, and 
