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characters : these might be called Egypto-Pelasgk heads ; but without making use 

 of this term, except in a very few instances by way of illustration, I have thought 

 best to transfer these examples from the Pelasgic group to the Egyptian, inasmuch 

 as they so far conform to the latter series as to be identified without difficulty. 



NEGRO RACE. 



The true Negro conformation requires no comment; but it is necessary to ob- 

 serve that a practised eye readily delects a few heads with decidedly mixed char- 

 acters, in which those of the Negro predominate. For these I propose the name 

 of the Negroid cr3.n\&; for while the osteological development is more or less that 

 of the Negro, the hair is long but sometimes harsh, thus indicating that combina- 

 tion of features which is familiar in the mulatto grades of the present day. It is 

 proper, however, to remark in relation to the whole series of crania, that while 

 the greater part is readily referrible to some one of the above subdivisions, there 

 remain other examples in which the Caucasian traits predominate, but are partially 

 blended with those of the Negro, which last modify both the structure and expres- 

 sion of the head and face. — pp. 3, 4. 



We extract the following valuable ethnographic table, p. 19. 



Ethnographic Table of one hundred ancient Egyptian Crania* 



The preceding table speaks for itself. It shows that more than eight tenths of 

 the crania pertain to the unmixed Caucasian race ; that the Pelasgic form is as one 

 to one and two thirds, and the Semitic form one to eight, compared with the Egyp- 

 tian : that one twentieth of the whole is composed of heads in which there exists 

 a trace of Negro and other exotic lineage : — that the Negroid conformation exists 

 in eight instances, thus constituting about one thirteenth part of the whole; and, 

 finally, that the series contains a single unmixed Negro. 



The conclusions to which Dr. Morton comes, after his careful and la- 

 borious examination, are as follows : 



CONCLUSIONS. 



1. The valley of the Nile, both in Egypt and in Nubia, was originally peopled 

 by a branch of the Caucasian race. 



* It will be observed, on comparing this table with the original one published in 

 the Proceedings of the Society for December, 1842, (and since republished in Mr. 

 Gliddon's Ancient Egypt,') that there is a great difference in the relative number of 

 Pelasgic and Egyptian heads ; which fact has been already adverted to, and ex- 

 plained, (page 4.) I have been governed, in the present classification, by the man- 

 ifest presence of the Egyptian physiognomy, even in those instances in which it 

 appears to be blended with an equal and even preponderating Pelasgic character. 

 It will be observed, however, that the whole number of Circassian heads is nearly 

 the same in both tables ; and that the relative proportion of Semitic, Negro and 

 Negroid crania is unaltered. 



