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hair ; large, flat face ; small, flat, wide nose ; eye-lid fissure narrow 

 and oblique ; eyes very far from one another. 



To this race belong the remaining Asiatics (with the exception 

 of the Malays), Finns, Laplanders, North Americans, Eskimos, and 

 Greenlanders. 



(c) The American Race : Copper-coloured ; straight black hair ; 

 more or less scanty beard ; prominent nose. 



This race comprises the remaining Americans. 



(d) The Ethiopian Race : Black or dark brown ; thick, short, 



FIG. 146. Hottentot woman (Notanthropus australis). (G. Sergi.) 



woolly, black hair ; skull long and laterally compressed ; retreating 

 forehead ; prominent upper jaw and retreating chin with teeth set 

 slanting forwards ; small nose depressed at the root ; thick lips. 



To this race belong the remaining Africans or Negroes, the 

 negroes of New Holland and of the Indian Archipelago (Papua). 



(e) The Malay Race : Brown skin ; abundant soft black hair, 

 growing in ringlets; moderately narrow skull; convex forehead; 

 rather prominent lower jaw ; thick, wide nose ; thick lips ; large 

 mouth. 



To this race belong the inhabitants of the islands of the Pacific ; 



