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Scotland, and North Germany but, much mixed with the next 

 group, they extend as far as Northern Africa and Afghanistan. 

 Their mixture with Mongoloid people has given rise to the 

 Lapps, Finns, and some of the tribes of Northern Siberia. 



B. Melanochroi, with black hair and eyes, and skin of 

 almost all shades from white to black. They comprise 

 the great majority of the inhabitants of Southern Europe, 

 Northern Africa, and South-west Asia, and consist mainly 

 of the Aryan, Semitic, and Hamitic families. The Dravidians 

 of India, the Veddahs of Ceylon, and probably the Ainos of 

 Japan, and the Maoutze of China, also belong to this race, 

 which may have contributed something to the mixed character 

 of some tribes of Indo-China and the Polynesian Islands, and, 

 as before said, given at least the characters of the hair to the 

 otherwise Negroid inhabitants of Australia. In Southern 

 India they are probably mixed with a Negrito element, and 

 in Africa, where their habitat becomes conterminous with that 

 of the Negroes, numerous cross races have sprung up between 

 them all along the frontier line. The ancient Egyptians were 

 nearly pure Melanochroi, though often showing in their features 

 traces of their frequent intermarriages with their Ethiopian 

 neighbours to the south. The Copts and fellahs of modern 

 Egypt are their little-changed descendants. 



In offering this scheme of classification of the human 

 species I have not thought it necessary to compare it in 

 detail with the ^numerous systems suggested by previous 

 anthropologists. These will all be found in the general 

 treatises on the subject. As I have remarked before, in 

 its broad outlines it scarcely differs from that proposed by 

 Cuvier nearly sixty years ago, and that the enormous in- 

 crease of our knowledge since that time should have caused 

 such little change is the best testimony to its being a truth- 

 ful representation of the facts. Still, however, it can only 

 be looked upon as an approximation. Whatever care be 

 bestowed upon the arrangement of already acquired details, 

 whatever judgment -be shown in their due subordination one 

 to another, the acquisition of new knowledge may at any 

 time call for a complete or partial rearrangement of our 

 system. 



