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from the racial characteristics of skull and stature, 

 not from simply philological considerations, and arrives 

 at a form of the " Sarmatian " theory of Aryan origins. 

 And for fear lest he should be supposed to take sides 

 in the question of race and language, or race and 

 civilisation, he remarks : — 



The combination of swarthiness with stature above the 

 average and a long skull, confer upon me the serene 

 impartiality of a mongi-el. 



The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, 

 Aug. 12, 1890. 



My dear Evans — I have read your address returned 

 herewith with a great deal of interest, as I happen to 

 have been amusing myself lately with reviewing the 

 " Aryan " question according to the new lights (or dark- 

 nesses). 



I have only two or three remarks to offer on the 

 places I have marked A and B. 



As to A, I would not state the case so strongly against 

 the probabilities of finding pliocene man. A pliocene 

 Homo skeleton might analogically be expected to differ 

 no more from that of modern men than the CEningen 

 Ganis horn, modem Canes, or pliocene horses from modern 

 horses. If so, he would most undoubtedly be a man — 

 genus Homo — even if you made him a distinct species. 

 For my part I should by no means be astonished to find 

 the genus Homo represented in the Miocene, say the 

 Neanderthal man with rather smaller brain capacity, 

 longer arms and more movable great toe, but at most 

 specifically different 



As to B, I rather think there were people who fought 

 the fallacy of language being a test of race before Broca — 

 among them thy servant — who got into considerable hot 

 water on that subject for a lecture on the forefathers and 



