1885.] Anthropology. 523. 
sive, centrifugal. As in the cosmic period heavenly bodies were 
thrown off by a revolving mass, so have species arisen by that 
isolation which is necessary to the fixity of hereditable character- 
istics. There seems to be a growing conviction that the first 
human stem threw off at least three branches to which the spe- 
cific law just mentioned applied. But expanding indefinitely the 
borders of these subspecies, if you like, soon overlapped ard set 
up a concrescent, concurrent movement, resulting in a diversity 
of races, 
Dr. Topinard accepts this tripartite division of humanity, de- 
veloped by Cuvier and enforced by Flourens and de Quatre- 
fages, but justifies s plan by arguments wholly his own. 
Taki e section of the hair or crinal index as a primary 
classific concept, fie gives the table below : 
1. Hair apes yee more or less — Yellow and red races of Asia and 
scarc the face and body. merica., 
2. Hair n sks or very spiral, section more Negro races of Africa and Oce- 
or less elliptical. anica. 
3. Hair more or less curled or wavy, oval in { sg pa races, Australians, Nu- 
section. 
The next concept is the nasal index, to which Dr. Topinard 
attaches oe importance. Adding this to the color of the skin 
we have 
Lepiorhines White 
ae: Rates 4 7 eotorhi „ayait Celt 
69 pies ie) [Leucoid] ep a ine St nie) ine) _ Sie 
Hyperleptorhine Anglo-Scandinavian 
(Kymri) `. 
Mesorhines ae te ee O (cranial) Eskim 
(living) es | nos e {Me ne cial): Veloe: ga of Asia 
70 to 81.4 [Xanthoid] Saliant t no Red-skin 
Platyrhines Black ell formed nose African Nias 
_ (living) s {xo Nose coarse, with enormous f Melanesians and 
82 and above [Melanoi] ale { Australians 
The nasal index he living is the ratio between the length of eel ee from the 
root to the outer nOon of the septum and the width outside of the 
The subject of color is further discussed in its ae? to the 
eyes and hair and the races grouped as 
Eyes, color. 1. Black and blackish, diff. shades (Top. 317). 
2. Green. 
3. Hazel. 
4. Blue and clear of diff. shades, includ. clear gray. 
Hair, color. 1. Absolutely black. 
2. Dark brown. 
5. Red. 
Skin, color. 1. o black. 
2. Brown, shaded 
‘ “4 Browik yellowed c or olive. 
4. Reddi sh. 
