of its great divieioiiB' — the Chinese vepreseuting the central, 

 and Japanese the northern race. They are people generally 

 of short' stature, broad heads, flat faees, with prominent 

 cheek bones and noses flat at the biidge. 



Their home is in Asia, and they seem to have spread 

 from that centre. Central Aisia La represented by the great 

 Tibeto-Chinese group, of which I show you numerous pic- 

 tures. They have light-er complexions and longer heads 

 than the Mongolians- — ^the Chinese being a tj'pe distinguish- 

 able at a glance from other Mongolians. They have a long 

 head with a Bno dome shaped skull sloping up from a low 

 forehead. The large dome shape is the more noticeable by 

 the shaA'ing of the hair bade fi'orn the forehead. Their com- 

 plexion is a. bright yellow, much lighter than other Mon- 

 golians. 



The Tibetans axe big, strong men with complexions 

 supposed to be comparatively fair, but as I never saw one 

 really clean I cannot say. 



I suppose the earliest members of the great Mongolian 

 race that we find traces of were the Sumerians, of Mesopo- 

 tamia. The earliest race of ]\Iesopotamia (the country 

 around old Babylon), ai'e called Sumerians. They were 

 one of the first people to develop a civilization of their own, 

 and their culture is fairly comparable with that of Egypt. 

 Babylon and Egypt stand together as the tv^'o gi'oat sources 

 of civilization. Now the ancient Sumerians seem to have 

 been Mongolian in type, and we have been able to trace 

 connections in their language with that of the Chinese, as 

 well as the Tartar. 



Later the Sumcrarians disappeared from Babylonia, 

 and their places aaid type are replaced by that of the Semitic 

 branch of the white race, but their culture remains ais a 

 baeis of the civilization of later generations. 



It is curious to^ note that as our civilization comes from 

 the Caucasian race of old Egypt, the other great primitive 

 ^ource of cultui'e is that of the Mongolian Sumerians, and 



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