34. GiUFFRiDA-RUGGKRI & CHAKLADAR 



" the blonde types among the Iranians are as brachy- 

 cepbalic as the chestnut* coloured and brown types.' 5 

 This same fact is seen equally in Central Europe. 



The branch that went towards the East and proceeded 

 into India, being obliged to pass across the regions al- 

 ready inhabited by tribes related to the Mediterraneans 

 and perhaps also, as we believe, by tribes akin to the 

 Dravidians, appears anthropologically to have been very 

 brown dolichocephals. But from what I have expounded 

 it is evident, that it is useless and vain to ask, who were 

 the Aryans, the Dolichocephals or the Brachycephals ? 

 The Aryan languages spread from a very northern centre, 

 arid that without any special regard for the brachycephals 

 or the dolichocephals : this is our opinion, as can be in- 

 ferred from what I have expounded above. It is clearly 

 contrary to the theory of Sergi, 2 who calls the brachy- 

 cephals round about Pamir " Mongoloids speaking 

 Aryan," and assigns to them the task of Aryanising 

 Europe. If they were of Mongolian origin there would 

 riot be any reason why in the centre of Asia, in the basin 

 of the Tarim, they should be of European features. The 

 only logical conclusion is that they are not Mongoloids. 

 We also repeat what already Ujfalvy had to conclude 

 from his own observation : " We see once again that we 

 have here a white race which is highly brachycephalic. "* 



Leaving aside this preliminary so-called Aryan ques- 

 tion -which it seems must remain an eternal riddle to be 

 solved by extravagant inventions for personal amusement 

 we bring together, as we have done for the Xanthoderms, 

 the anthropometric characters of the Asiatic Leucoderms. 

 These are collected from Tables IV, V, VI : only I have 



1 DK UJFAiiVY (Ch.), Expedition actentifiqut, etc.. Vol. Ill, p. 12. 



SKBGI (G.), <3H Arii, etc., op. cit,, p. 259. Cf. also pp. 132-133, 15:i-154, 2 



r! DK UJFAT.VT (Ch.), Expedition Scient'ifiqitt'. etc., up. cit., Vol. 1J, p. 151. 



