RACE AND COLOR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8999, 23 January 1906, Page 2

RACE AND COLOR.

At the Society of Axis, London, Dr Beddoe, F.R.S., delivered the Huxley Memorial Lecture before a meeting of the Anthropological Institute. Taking as his subject the relation of color to race, he eaid that red seemed to have been the original hair color of men in Europe, the development of the brown pigment coming later with subjection to heat. But while there was an unmistakable increase of dark hues as one went southward to meet the sun, the facts were not explicable except on the hypothesis of strong racial heredity and natural and social j selection. There woe a similar gradation , in the British Isles, but in this case it went from nortE-east to soufch-west. The whole of these, phenomena could be accounted for, however, by historical facts or possibilities. .Successive intrusions of invaders of light , complexions accounted for the fairness of the northern and eastern people, while the darker people of Suesex showed that the Britons found refuge there, and the lighter colors of Hampshire and Berkshire testified to the strength of the onvdden. So in Ireland the people of the east, descendants of the later invaders, tended to fairness, while the natives of the west were darker. <

We are Josing, Joeing rapidly, the perfectly innocent, the "quite unobjectionable' 'novel, the sort of novel that any high-school^ girl might lend to her aunt. It still exists, but the supply of it falls shorter and shorter with each returning spring. In most novels that find their way to my study table to-day there are pasaees to which it would be wiser not to call the attention of any annt. — Hubert Bland, in The Book Monthly.