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while the diminutive MINCOPIES of the Andaman 

 Islands lie midway between the Negro and 

 Negrito races, and, as Mr. Busk has pointed out, oc- 

 casionally present the rare combination of brachy- 

 cephaly, or short-headedness, with woolly hair. 



In the preceding progress along the outskirts of 

 the habitable world, eleven readily distinguishable 

 stocks, or persistent modifications, of mankind, 

 have been recognized. I have purposely omitted 

 such people as the Abyssinians and the Hindoos 

 of the valleys of the Ganges and Indus, who 

 there is every reason to believe result from the 

 intermixture of distinct stocks. Perhaps I ought 

 for like reasons, to have ignored the Mincopies. 

 But I do not pretend that my enumeration is 

 complete or, in any sense, perfect. It is enough 

 for my purpose if it be admitted (and I think it 

 cannot be denied) that those which I have men- 

 tioned exist, are well marked, and occupy the 

 greater part of the habitable globe. 



In attempting to classify these persistent modi- 

 fications after the manner of naturalists, the first 

 circumstance that attracts one's attention is the 

 broad contrast between the people with straight 

 and wavy hair, and those with crisp, woolly, or 

 tufted hair. Bory de St. Vincent, noting this 

 fundamental distinction, divided mankind accord- 

 ingly into the two primary groups of Leiotricki 

 and Ulotrichi> terms which are open to criticism, 



