Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-08-23
WAS ADAM A NEGRO7
of the Original Man by an English Scientist.

In the first of a series of articles upon anthropol0gical data Prof Ar thur Thompson discusses the original color of mankind and weighs some evi- dence bearing upon the question whether the earliest races were black or white
 Al the same time he mentions Alfred Russell Waliace's idea that primitive man was a Mongol. This would infer that our original color was yellow, and when ve consider the civilization of remote times which existed among the Chinese, that the people of Europe sprang from Asiatic stock, and that the identity of the earliest cave dwell CTS in this country and in France with the Eskimos talso Mongolsl has been demonstrated, this sicw does not seem 60 very unlikely. Prof Thompson char actcTizes the theory as suggestive. but goes into none of these outside details, confuiug himself Co a study of skiE, hair, and their pigments.
 Sorby. he says, isolated three pig ments. using hair as the more con venient subject for experiment. In ight-colored hair a brown red and vel low pigment occur, 10 which in black hair a black coloring matter is added, and it is remarkable fact that there may be in a negro's ''wool' as much red pigment as in the European variety sometimes alluded Co as carrots.
 Again, when piece of white skin is grafted. as is often done in modem sur gery, upon a black man. it becomes black. while black upon a white man loses it's pigment This, Prof Thomp- son thinks. supports the theory that man has developed a white skin from g black, rather than the other alterna- tive.
 Other interesting points are brought forward. For instance, there is always a certain amount of pigment in the skin of even fair people, that is, of the red and yellow kinds found in their hair. but not enough to prevent the blood in the vessels which do not come nearer the surface than the true skin showing through the semi-transparent layers of the epidermis.
 Bronzing through exposure to the sun is due to an increased blood supply and n corresponding development freckles. and augmented spots, similar in structure Co the general skins oi darker races. while dark-compleNicncd people among us have, in addition tC the ordinary pigments, a trace oi the black color of the negro, more com monly. present in our hair. There is not. however. enough to destroy the racial fairness of our skin, though in exceptional situations tsuch as in the arm pits) its presence may be very eVl- dent
 As to the use Of black skin, Darwin hinted that it might have been devel- oped in correlation with the immunity from malarial diseases which 'darkies' enjoy, as it is true that white sufferers acquire a darker complexion. . In support of the idea that the an cestors of negros and white men more nearly resembled the latter in color . a point not mentioned by Prof. Thomp- son might be brought forward. and that . is that "pickaninnies' at their birth are not black in color. but of S dirty gray. 1T original man were black. just IS the original lion was spotted, We should expect 10 find in the negro in fant the black color. Hs We find in tho young cub the traces of spOts.-Lon- 4on Mail