NOT EUGENESIC. 47 



name of Andamenes, d'Halloy comprises the Australians, Tas- 

 manians, and all the blacks with woolly hair of Melanesia and 

 Malasia. 



It may, then, be inferred from this passage, either that the 

 Europeans established in these countries have no connection 

 with the native black women, which appears inadmissible, as 

 we shall presently show, or that the intermixture between the 

 two races is perfectly sterile. This latter assertion is, how- 

 ever, not altogether correct. True it is that the greater part 

 of travellers make no mention whatever of hybrids of Mela- 

 nesia ; it is equally true that they are very rare, but still there 

 exist some. Thus Quoy and Gaymard have seen one hybrid of an 

 European and a Tasmanian woman. 1 Mr. Gliddon, who un- 

 fortunately does not cite the source from which he has drawn 

 his information, announces that until the year 1835, when the 

 Tasmanians were exterminated, there were only known, in the 

 whole of Tasmania, two adult Mulattoes. 3 This indicates 

 either that few were born, or that they died at an early age, 

 for the colony, founded in 1803 by a population at first almost 

 exclusively masculine, had, in a few years, considerably in- 

 creased by the arrival of convicts and free settlers, nearly all 

 males. Mr. Jacquinot, after having announced that there were 

 no hybrids in Australia, adds, "In Hobart Town, and in all 

 Tasmania, there are no hybrids either." 3 No other author 

 has, to our knowledge, mentioned Tasmanian hybrids. 



The intermixture of the English with the native women of 

 Australia has not been more productive. " There are scarcely," 

 says Jacquinot, " any Mulattoes of Australians and English 

 mentioned." This absence of Mulattoes between two peoples 

 living in contact on the same soil, proves incontestably the 

 difference of species. It may also be noticed that if such 

 cross-breeds really existed, they would be easily recognised. 4 

 Mr. Lesson, who lived about two months in Sydney and its 

 environs, and who made several excursions among the natives, 



1 Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. dc I' Astrolabe en 1826-29, t. i, p. 46, Paris, 183G. 



2 Gliddon, The Monogenists and the Polygenists, 443. 



3 Voyage au Pole et dans I' Oceanic, t. ii, p. 109, Paris, 1846. 



4 Loc. cit., p. 109. 



