He REMARKABLE ANTICIPATION, ETC. 19 
affected by a change of climate, and, he might have added, 
conflicts equally strongly with his argument in section iii., 
that acquired characters are not transmitted. However, he 
is so fascinated by the view of a local influence directly pro- 
ducing adaptation that he throws over much that he had 
previously argued for in a most convincing manner. Thus 
he suggests that races of men when removed into another 
climate may not change because they are defended from the 
local influences by living in houses, adhering to their old 
foods, etc., also that the facts about the black and white 
Jews of Cochin, from which he argued in section ii. that 
climate produces no permanent effect on the race, may be 
insufficiently known. 
It is strange that one who reasoned so acutely in section 
ii. did not seem to see that the following view if proved to be 
true would undermine the whole of the argument : “ It may 
however be true, that particular varieties, once established 
in the stock, and transmitted for many generations, though 
originally resulting in a certain degree from the influence of 
local causes, will nevertheless continue permanent, even 
long after the race has been removed from the climate in 
which they originated ”. 
In spite of this logical flaw, which is in itself of much 
interest, inasmuch as it probably explains the suppression 
of Prichard’s original views in later works, sufficient has 
been said to prove that the author was one of the most 
remarkable and clear-sighted of the predecessors of Darwin 
and Wallace. 
E- By Pourron 
