114 BEAN. 



and forward in a rigid, rounded point. This ear form is simulated by 

 many that have Primitive characteristics, as may be seen in Plate A 

 where the three Negritos from Pampanga have this ear type. The 

 Australoid nose is especially plain in the man in the center of Plate A. 



The true Negrito ear is seen in modified form in all the figures of 

 Plate XI where the nose is not typically Australoid, but also modified. 

 Observations of living Negritos, with physical measurements, may be 

 necessary to determine the relation of this ear to the physical type. At 

 present it appears to be one of the most frequent forms and apparently 

 the true ear-type. It may be regarded as a blended type derived from 

 the Primitive and Iberian which has been differentiated from both in 

 the processes of fusion. 



Plate XII. 



Plate XII is presented to illustrate the results of combinations of 

 types that have intermingled, and thus enables us to understand the 

 processes by which amalgamation progresses. Figure 1 is an Iberian 

 Filipino with perfect, Iberian, type A of ears, probably a Spanish- 

 Filipino mestizo. If such a man should impregnate a Negrito woman of 

 'the Primitive type seen in figure 2, the result might be the production 

 of two individuals similar to those in figures 3 and 4, where blending 

 is evident. The further impregnation of Negrito women by such blended 

 individuals might produce men similar to those portrayed in figures 5, 

 6, 7, and 8, in which the kinky hair and dark skin of the Negrito appear 

 because they axe dominant, and in which the Iberian and Primitive ears 

 and physiognomy remain blended to some extent, although one may par- 

 take more of the Primitive and another of the Iberian. The union of 

 individuals of the blended type might also reproduce according to Men- 

 del's law; the offspring would then be in the ratio of three Negiito 

 Primitives to one Filipino-Iberian, provided the former is dominant. 



DISCUSSION. 



Three possibilities in the heredity of Iberian and Primitive characters 

 are apparent from the study of the ears and physiognomy of the Negritos : 

 First, there is blending with the production of a hybrid that has curly 

 or Vf&vy hair, ears that are part Iberian and part Primitive without the 

 distinctive characters of either, and a nose that is straight, yet wide 

 and not high; second, there is persistence of both Iberian and Primitive 

 ears and physiognomy, each tj'pe accompanied by kinky hair; third, 

 there is a mosaic ear, the Alpine, some parts of which are Primitive and 

 others Iberian, and which, slightly modified, occurs in connection with 

 kinky hair and Iberian physiognomy. 



It remains to be determined exactly what takes place in the heredity 



