Abstract
THE Huxley Memorial Lecture of the Royal Anthropological Institute was delivered by Sir Arthur Keith in the lecture hall of the Royal Society on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 8.30 p.m., when Prof. J. L. Myres, president of the Institute, took the chair. Sir Arthur Keith took for his subject “The Evolution of Human Races.” He traced Huxley's career as an anthropologist, and said that in his opinion, his final conclusion that the chief types or races of existing mankind can be reduced to four, is still the most acceptable working hypothesis. Huxley's four chief types are represented by the fair people of Europe (his Xanthochroi), the negro of Africa, the Mongol of Asia, and the aborigine of Australia. The less differentiated types or races Huxley regarded as intermediate in characterisation to his main types, and was disposed to look upon them as having arisen by various degrees of miscegenation of the main types.
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