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The Races of Man

Note 326 — Chapter VIII

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Principal Races. Secondary Races or “Modifications.”

(1) Negroid. (1) Bushmen, (2) Negro, (3) Papuan.

(2) Australoid. (4) Australians, (5) Black race of Deccan(Dravidians), (6) Ethiopian (Hamite).

(3) Mongoloid. (7) Mongol, (8) Polynesian, (9) American, (10) Eskimo, (11) Malay.

(4) Xanthochroid. (12) Xanthochroid of Northern Europe.

(5) Melanochroid. (13) Melanochroid of Southern Europe, (14) Melanochroid of Asia (Arabs, Afghans, Hindus, etc.).

—T. Huxley, “Geogr. Distrib. of Mankind,” Journ. Ethnol. Soc. London, N.S., vol. ii., p. 404, map, 1870. The classification of Flower (Jl. Anthro. Inst., vol. xiv., 1885, p. 378) differs from that of Huxley in a few details only. This eminent anatomist grouped his eleven races and three sub-races under three “types”—Negro, Mongolian, and Caucasian.

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