Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-10-10
us RACES or MANkINp.


TSssrs Arc seventy-two o. Them Existing
Now--An Came from Asia.
u. de Quatrefages. the leading French
etbnoIogist, in presenting the second
part Of his Introduction to the Study Of
the Human Races" to the Academy Of
Sciences, has given an interesting sum-
mary Of his general conclusions with re-
gard to the origin and distribution Of
mankind.
Neglecting the minor differences, he
estimates that there are no fewer than
eeventy-two distinct races in the human
species. All these descend or branch of
from three fundamental types - the
black, the yellow and the white--which
had their origin at the great central mass
of northern Asia. which is thus the era
die o. mankind. Representatives Of these
different types and the races which
sprang from them are still to be found
there.
The whites, according to NJ. de Quatre-
FACES, appear to have originated ON the
west Of the central mass, the yellows on
the north and the blacks on the south.
The whites extended westward and
northward, giving birth to three second
airy types. the Finnish. the Semitic and
the Aryan, If we except the Allophyles,
which form separate group. Their
area Of distribution Is continuous. as Is
that of the yellows, because of the extern
eive land surface Of the Eurasian conti-
nent. The yellows spread eastward and
crossed into America The whites and
yellows checked or blended with each
other, producing many varieties of man.
The blacks. or negro type, which original
ed on the south of the central mass, was
forced by the nature of the continent,
and probably by the attacks Of the
whites and yellows, to go south into Az
fica and east into the Indian archipelago
or Melanesia.
The proto-Semites arrested their dis
tribution in the north of Africa, and the
mixture Of the two races gave rise to the
negroid populations. In the center and
south Of Africa the blacks continued in
tiieii ethnic purity until the infiltration
o. other races from Europe and the north
Of Africa In modern times. Those which
remained in their original home became
blended with the whites and yellows,
giving rise to the dravidian populations
which pass by shades into the three fun.
damental types.
AS for the Allophyles, represented by
the race Of Gro Magnon, they occupied
parts Of Europe and north Africa, from
which they extended to the Canaries.
The three fundamental types also found
themselves in Oceania; the Allophylian
whites occupying Polynesia, the blacks
Melanesia, the yellows MALAYSIA. The lat.
ter We're, according to NJ. de Quatrefages,
the last to come into the maritime world.
The peopling of America dates from
the quaternary period, and Is due to mi
grations Of different types-Allophylic
white and yellow, blending with the local
quaternary races, which also belonged to
the yellow type. Europe, since the ter
tialy ages, has received only Allophylian
whites, Firms and Aryans. The number
of races now existing in pure state is
exceedingly restricted, If, indeed, there
Is a single one which can be accepted as
such. Perhaps some little groups, pro-
tected by their isolation. such as the
Mincopies, may show an identity of char
acters attesting their othnic honogeneity.
london Times.