" NATIONALITY." 297 



Mr. Howard. — I meant that they were superior. 



The Adthor. — That may be, but I do not see how we can prove 

 which were originally superior. Sometimes you can find reason 

 for inferring- that a race was red. The Ammorites were red, were 

 they not ? 



Then with regard to the ruling races of classic story being 

 either dark or fair. Professor Westlake, one of our most disrin- 

 guished scholars, I see is present, and I daresay he would answer 

 that. 



Professor Westlake. — I should be inclined to think they were 

 fair. 



The Author. — I have only tried to trace the fair races to the 

 Baltic, the i"ed races to Asia, and the dark races to the mixed 

 people of the Mediterranean coast. 



The Meeting was then adjourned. 



COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED IN REGARD TO THE 

 FOREGOING PAPER. 



Canon Isaac Taylor, D.D., writes : — 



I am much obliged by your sending the proof of Professor 

 Hughes's paper, the discussion on which can hardly fail to be of 

 interest. 



If health permitted I would gladly come up to take part in it. 



I agree with him so far as he goes, but belonging to the school 

 of Broca, I believe that language and colour are less persistent 

 racial characters than the orbital and ci^anial indices or the section 

 •of the hair, which is circular in races coming from the east and 

 flat in those from the south. 



ColonelC. R. CONDER, R.E., D.C.L., writes: — 



Agreeing cordially with the general results of this paper, I 

 venture to make a few remarks, due to personal knowledge of 

 various nationalities and study of their histories. It is almost 

 impossible to find, even as early as 3000 B.C., either a pure race 

 or a pure language. The Babylonians intermarried with Mongol 

 Akkadians, and borrowed words of their language. In the fifth 

 century B.C. it is proved that Persians and Babylonians inter- 



