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AVe are thus arrived near to that region called Zunga- 

 ria, which makes us think of the question of the origin 

 of the Leucoderms, since we have already said that 

 probably it bordered as much upon the anthropogenetic 

 centre of the Leucoderms, as upon that of the Xantho- 

 derms, according to our hypothesis of the plurality of the 

 centres of differentiation in species and sub-species, i.e., 

 specific late centres. The first centre we have located 

 in the N. W. of Asia, and we are inclined to believe that 

 it originally was constituted of dolicho-mesaticephals, 

 like the original yellow stock (it may then hardly be 

 maintained that this skeletal character can ever have a 

 great discriminative value !) : this is in agreement with 

 the skulls excavated in Turkestan mentioned above, and 

 also with the fact that the earliest population of Siberia 

 was made up of dolichocephals with European faces ' as 

 can be seen from the prehistoric crania found in the 

 sepulchres of the upper valley of the Yenissei. We hold 

 instead that the brachycephals with European faces are 

 a variety of the more ancient branch, the above men- 

 tioned dolicho-mesaticephalic people, who settled by 

 preference in a mountainous habitat. 



Having stated this it is not without some interest to 

 refer to what Ujfalvy says of the inhabitants of Zimgaria : 

 " It appears to me proved that the Dungani are a special 

 people, of non-Chinese origin, and that in their composition 

 have entered, without doubt, some elements that are 

 neither Mongolian nor Altaic."' 2 Although the Dungani 

 have all of them hairless skin and a scanty beard, * an 

 unknown element must have ruled the formation of their 

 type ' : the explanation given* by Ujfalvy is that these 



1 DENIKKK (J.), op. cit., p. 424. 



; DK UJKALVV (Cli.), Les Knch</ricn.<, Tnru.ntch>.'.-- ( I><i><n ( f(t>it't. "'Rev. 

 d'Autlirop." II serif, T. II, 1879, p. 495. 



