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are the chief representatives of this type, and Huxley also includes in 

 it the inhabitants of the Dekhan and the ancient Egyptians. As re- 

 gards the people of the Dekhan a doubt may be suggested, whether the 

 data available are ample enough to justify this conclusion. One may 

 also fairly ask what is meant by the phrase inhabitants of the Dekhan. 

 Presumably the Dravidians, but the category is so large and indefinite 

 that it may well give rise to some misapprehension. One is tempted to 

 surmise that the people of the Dekhan have been included in this type on 

 the strength of an examination of a limited number of Museum specimens, 

 about the least trustworthy kind of evidence that can be resorted to. ISTo 

 one who is acquainted with the conditions which govern the collection and 

 preparation of skulls in India, can fail to regard with profound distrust 

 any of the ordinary collections ; for the simple reason that in nine cases 

 out of ten there is, and from the nature of the case can be, no guarantee 

 whatever that the skulls are what they are represented to be. Pending 

 therefore the fuller examination and determination of the Dravidian type, 

 which may perhaps be looked for, we may be permitted to suspend judg- 

 ment on the question whether it should be included in the Aus f ralioid 

 group. 



2. rlext in order comes the Mongoloid group, with usually yellowish- 

 brown or reddish-brown skins and dark eyes, the hair being long, black, 

 and straight. The characteristic Mongolian skull is brachycephalic ; in 

 fact the most pronounced cases of brachycephaley are found among this 

 group, and all Asiatic Mongols are markedly brachycephalic. On the 

 other hand, the American Mongols are usually dolichocephalic. 



3. The Xanthrochroic group is marked by fair skins, blue eyes, and 

 abundant fair hair. The skulls of the most typical members of the group 

 are almost invariably dolichocephalic, indeed Penka (Die HerJcicnft der 

 Arier) regards this as one of the chief characteristics of the Xanthrochroic 

 Scandinavians ; but in Southern Europe the brachycephalic representa- 

 tives of the type out-number the dolichocephalic. Teutons, Scandinavians, 

 Slavonians, and the fair Celts are the chief members of this group ; but 

 distant off-shoots are also found in North Africa and Western Asia. 



4. The Melanochroi, or dark whites, have pale complexions, dark hair 

 and eyes, and usually long, but sometimes broad skulls. In Europe they 

 are represented by the Iberians and "black Celts " of Western Europe. 

 Professor Huxley is inclined to think that they are not a distinct group, 

 but result from the mixture of Australioids and Xanthroehroi. 



