Chap. vil. 
THE EACES OF MAN. 
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^te Dr. Daniell, who had long lived on the West Coast 
°f Africa, told me that he did not believe in any such 
elation. He was himself unusually fair, and had with- 
stood the climate in a wonderful manner. When he 
first arrived as a boy on the coast, an old and expe- 
rienced negro chief predicted from his appearance that 
this would prove the case. Dr. Nicholson, of Antigua, 
a fter having attended to this subject, wrote to me that 
fife did not think that dark-coloured Europeans escaped 
tfie yellow-fever better than those that were light- 
( '°loured. Mr. J. M. Harris altogether denies 49 that 
Europeans with dark hair withstand a hot climate 
letter than other men ; on the contrary, experience has 
^ught him in making a selection of men for service 
° u the coast of Africa, to choose those with red hair. 
far, therefore, as these slight indications serve, there 
Se ems no foundation for the hypothesis, which has been 
a °cepted by several writers, that the colour of the black 
Ta ces niay have resulted from darker and darker indi- 
viduals having survived in greater numbers, during 
t^eir exposure to the fever-generating miasmas of their 
Native countries. 
Although with our present knowledge we cannot 
Account for the strongly-marked differences in colour 
between the races of man, either through correlation 
"dth constitutional peculiarities, or through the direct 
ac tion of climate ; yet we must not quite ignore the 
(1 discovered, but the investigation is well worth making. In ease 
u au y positive result were obtained, it might be of some practical use 
u ^ selecting men for any particular service. Theoretically the result 
u ^ v °uld be of high interest, as indicating one means by which a race 
inhabiting from a remote period an unhealthy tropical climate, 
<{ ^Sht have become dark-coloured by the better preservation of dark- 
u { dred or dark-complexioned individuals during a long succession of 
generations.” 
4J ‘ Anthropological Eevie'w/ Jan. 1866, p. xxi. 
