Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-07-12
WAS ADAM 4 NEGRO7
of the Original Man By sR English Scfentfst.

In the first of a series of articles upon anthropologieal data Prof. Ar thur Thompson discusses the origina color of mankind and weighs some eyi denee bearing upon the question whether the earliest races were blael or white.
 At the same time he mentions AlfreC Russell WaIlaee's idea that primitive man was a Mongol. This would infer that our original color was yellow. and when We consider the civilization oi remote times which existed among the Chinese, that the people of Europs sprang from Asiatic stock. and that the identity of the earliest cave dwell CTS in this country and in France with the Eskimos (also MoRgols) has been demonstrated. this view does not seem 60 vezy .unlikely. Prof. Thompson char aeterizes the theory as suggestive. but goes into none of these outside details, confining himself to a study of skiR, hair, and their pigments.
 Sorby, he says. isolated three pig ments. using hair as the more con Venient subject for experiment. In hght-colOred hair brown red and vel low pigment occur. 10 which in black hair black eoloring matter is added and it is a remarkable fact that there may be in a negro's wool" as much red pigment as in the European variety sometimes alluded to as carrots"
 Again, when a piece of white skin is grafted. as is often done in modei sur gery, upon a black man, it becomes black. while black upon white man loses its pigment. This. Prof. Thomp- son thinks, supports the theory that man has developed a white skin from a 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 10 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.
 BrOnziDg through exposure to the sun is due to an increased blood supply and a corresponding development. freckles, and pigmented spots. similar in structure 10 the general skins of darker races, while dark-complexioned people among us have, in addition 10 the ordinary pigments, a trace of 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 (such as in the arm pits) its presence may be very evil 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 dirty gray. If original man were black, just IS the original lion was spotted, We should expect to find in the negro in- tant the black color. as we find in the young cub the traces of spots.-LOn- don Mail.