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many of the non-Aryan tribes of Central and 

 Southern India. In the second group came Chinese, 

 American Indians, Malays, and African Negroes ; 

 while in the third were included Melanesians, 

 Andamanese, Australians, and Tasmanians. If it be 

 borne in mind, as explained in the original paper, that 

 the teeth in African Negroes are actually larger than 

 in Europeans, although the " index " is reduced by 

 the great length of the base of the cranium (which 

 forms a factor in the index) in the former, the results 

 accord remarkably well with the under-mentioned 

 classification of the human species, which is indeed 

 partly based on the character in question. 



"The Classification of the Varieties of the Human 

 Species " is the title of Flower's Presidential Address 

 to the Anniversary Meeting of the Anthropological 

 Institute, held in January 1885. In this scheme the 

 species was divided into three main stocks, or branches, 

 namely (i) the Negroid, or black ; (2) the Mongolian, 

 or yellow ; and (3) the Caucasian, or white. In the 

 first were included the African or typical Negroes, the 

 Hottentots and Bushmen, the Oceanic Negroes or 

 Melanesians, and the Negritos of the Andaman 

 Islands and other parts of Asia ; the Australians being 

 provisionally classed near the Melanesians. The second, 

 or Mongolian, branch was taken to include the 

 Eskimo, the typical Mongols of Central and Northern 

 Asia, the brown Polynesians or " Kanakas," and the 

 so-called American Indians, from the great lakes of 

 Canada to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. In the 

 third, or Caucasian, group were classed, of course, all 

 the remaining representatives of the human race, 



