290 PROF. T. MCKENNY HUGHES, F.R.S., ON 



antiquity the Amorites are said to have been of the same 

 type* ; and to what is the fashion of staininc^ the beard 

 bright red, which 1 saw in the region between the Black Sea 

 and the Caspian, due if not to the tradition of that being the 

 aristocratic colour, as auburn hair was adopted out of lioniage 

 to Queen Elizabeth and in the present century flaxen hair 

 was produced artificially out of homage to Fasliion ? 



May we speculate upon these red people having all had a 

 common origin in Northern Asia, from which they travelled 

 west to the JBaltic, and south-west to the ^Mediterranean, and 

 by their great prepotency of transmission reached the British 

 Isles in two distinct streams: one in the blood of the Ijaltic 

 people and the other in the blood of the dark Mediterranean 

 race ? 



In all these enquiiies I have confined myself to observation 

 of the softer parts — of the hair and eyes and skin, and not of 

 the bony structure, except so far as it affects stature and 

 obvious features. There is much to support the view that 

 the skin and flesh are less changeable than the bone. On 

 Egyptian monuments Negroes and other races are depicted 

 so that it is easy to recognise them by the character of nose 

 and lip, and skin and flesh. 



Animals grown on richer soil than that Avhich is their usual 

 habitat often become larger, but in almost every _ other 

 character remain the same. The red deer dug up in the 

 peat mosses and rich alluvial plains of the south are much 

 larger in the bone than any now seen in the Scotch forests ; 

 and the type of the Kerry cow cannot be maintained on the 

 rich pastures of England. A clearer example for our purpose 

 is furnished by the manner in which the horns were got rid 

 of in the black cattle of Southern Scotland. I heard Lord 

 Selkirk give an account of how it was brought about. A 

 little more money was given for the polled Angus or Galloway, 

 until by selection the horn core, which is a development of 

 the bone, was got rid of, and the horn, which is a development 

 of the skin, hung loose beside the animal's head, tluTo being 

 no bone to support it. At last both were got rid of altogether 

 in about 50 years. We see in this case that tlie bone 

 changed more readily than the softer parts. Craniologv has, 

 of course, its own proper place ; but this method of distin- 

 guishing race by observation of the colour, the hair, the skin 

 and flesh, rests on the more stable elements. 



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