, 1889-10-31
Wyoming and it scarcely entities him to
the warm hearted support of the people
Of Laramie county.
THE RACES OF MANKIND.

rksre Are seyenty-two of Them Existing
Sow-An Came from Asia
II. de Quatrefages, the leading French
~ethnologist. 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 OF igin and distribution Of
mankind.
Neglecting the minor differences, he
estimates that there are no fewer than
se~venty-two distinct races in the human
species. All these descend or branch off
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 of 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 a separate group. Their
area of distribution is continuous, as is
that of the yellows, because of the extern
sive land surface OF the Eurasian CONT
men 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
RIGA 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
Mouth OF Africa the blacks continued in
their ethnic purity until the infiltration
Of 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 Cro-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
whiteo occupying Polynesia, the blacks
M%elanesia, the yellows MALAYSIA. The lat
ter were. 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 Aliophylic
white and yellc'y, blending with the local
q~uaternary races, which also belonged to
the yellow type. Europe, since the ter
tiary ages, has received only Allophylian
whites. Firms and Aryans. The number
of races now existing in a 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 ethnic homogeneity.
London Times.