760 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. ` (VoL. XXXIX. 
In several places in his book M. Cosentini adduces, as a testi- 
‘mony, the status of the * peau-rouges" or Indians. The term “red- 
skins" should once for all be abandoned. The skin of the Indian is 
of a yellowish brown toa pure brown, much like that of the Malay, and 
not red. And when the Indians are quoted it should be only with a 
good ethnological acquaintance with them, and not as a people of one 
homogeneous culture. They, or at least the great majority of them, 
must not be classed with the Bushmen and other world's lowest 
savages. Nor do the Esquimaux deserve such a classing. 
There are numerous other points in the book which demand, if not 
an objection, at least an argument. The space does not permit to 
mention but two. On page 64 the principal directive motives of the 
conduct of the primitive man are given as egoism — force — robbery 
— cruelty — cannibalism ; what substantiation can the author bring 
forth for this singular conception of our ancestors? The second 
point concerns a notion closely allied, if not tbe result, of the preced- 
ing. It relates to the criminals. Criminals are, for the writer, 
" from anthropological and psychical view, a return to inferior race " 
(Pp. 32) ; and again (p. 193), “crime is a hereditary (atavistic?) return 
to a former degree of development of our race, to the epoch when no 
crime has yet existed." This makes a primitive instead of a defective 
man out of the criminal! 
ACE. 
« Notes.— Distribution of Blondes and Brunettes in Holland.— In 
order to obtain some definite data on the distribution of the dark 
and light types of population in Holland, Dr. Bolk addressed numer- 
ous teachers and with their aid secured data on nearly 500,000 
children. These data (Ju. Soc. d’ Anthropol., ser. 5, V0l. 5, p. 575. 
1904) show that the dark type is rare in the northern provinces, not 
exceeding, in many localities, more than ten percent of the popula- 
tion ; and that it increases southward, reaching the maximum (40 
percent and over) in the provinces of Zeeland, Noord- Brabant, and 
Limburg. This dark type corresponds, in the opinion of the author, 
to the brachycephalic “ Alpine” type. Among the blondes are 
recognizable two distinct physical varieties: one, with a longer head 
and face, best represented in Friesland and corresponding to the 
Nordic" or Germanic race; the other, brachycephalic and with a 
shorter face, found principally in the province of Drenthe, and rep- 
resenting the so called Oriental race of whites. It would be very 
Interesting to have these results supplemented by similar data on 
Belgium. 
