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ruo,, ,se New york Tfibune's renort OF an ao ar
trssa delivered by Prnis sssnsionai Congress Of
S5SsTasntaiisss. in London, September so.j
m r were to select from ancient history
x,sander of chronological science ! snoun
sssSe Thotunes III, Oft he Eighteenth Dyuss.
Nc He was The first and greatest cone1so %
~ Genealogical specimens, UNCONSCIOUS, ,, vi
cnnrsa. Of their relation to our science. Lus
Sost Of Mariefte. Bey's pregnant u'seo, g. , ss
% a recoyd INV Thotmes1, in more 0esa" tu.'s
80 o,bar. Of the countries. locaMs,es, aao
tic fron which, In the course OF MS VlSto
s;s,,S csmnaicrs, he obtained, tor service,
hie exarppies of human races as at tnat oase
ss,sbiisbsd. Thotmes may thus claim 10 De
the oldest geograpber as well as EN-
biologist, What were those races IN
what degree had the human cbarac-
fers deviated from the Noachian or oyro-
Aramasan type? This founder OF etnnoiogy
shows us both the kinds and degrees Oh sucn
variations. "How sou? you may ask: by
/, colored figures Of his captires, supp'iants:
tribute. bearers. The walls OF temples III
Thebes are enriched with such 'reScoes'
The British museum possesses parts OF one
at least three thousand years old, Win It's
colors seeming as fresh as when la,o OH
You may have contemplated that priceless
chronological testimony when you none.eu
us with your presence on Tuesday ias'. io.'
would there see-First, the Egyptian su'Jects
Of Thotmes, bis own people, proRzeu anu
tanned, but in form and features repeating Tue
ethnic characters in the contiguous hasu.u'
cent sculptured representations OF tue mon
arch himself. Secondly, before him bow the
Rotennou tributaries, with lighter com,
pieyion and hair, with prominent hooked
nose. with the full beard and other coarac'
tiers marking them as cognates of the Hycsos,
of the PhilI,tine or Palestine family, repre-
scented by modern Jews, and by the people
whose features are preserved in our AsSyrian
sculptures. Thirdly, there is the unmis'
taxable typical negro-black skin, retreatins
forehead. fat SQUAD nose, prominent thicS
lips. receding chm. legs slightly bowed, poor
calf. long tendo achilles, projecting heel, CRISP
woolly hair, short scanty beard. These Deai
the gold, ivory, leopard skins, and other
characteristic productions Of the Soudan
You see the veritable progenitors OF tne
shaving and slave-makiDg tribes of late sue
jected to the wholesome discipline OF Sill
Samuel Baker. With this evidence OF ex
IRENE varieties of mankind 500 years Is
c., which subsequently have undergone little
or no amount of change, the probability u
great that in the time OF Thotmes-but 3,O0l
years ago-there existed also red men II
America, Maoiies in the Pacific. Monguls in
Cbina, AMOS in Japan, Papuans in Nc"
Guinc,, Tasmanians, not then extinct, nearel
the Antarctic circle, .E<quimauX at tue orpo
site pole, and a WIDE dispersion of sub-va
rieties of the negro race over the African
continent. Physiology compels retrospect
far beyond historical periods of time for the
establishment of these varieties. Geology
lends her aid in expanding our conceptions
of time past in relation to the existence o
the source OF these yarielies-the last, high
est organic form that naked and on two
legs trod the earth"