This is an example of _intercrossing_, and they could easily be multiplied. I have already observed how closely the Aryan or Dravidian Hindoos, African or Melanesian Negroes and manifestly Semitic populations may resemble each other in colour. The following is a still more striking example. Desmoulins regarded the perforation of the olecranon process as one of the most decided characters of his _Austro-African species of man_. Now this perforation reappears in Egyptian and Guanche mummies, in a large number of European skeletons of the neolithic period, the crania of which moreover, exhibit no other relations with those of the Bosjesmans, and even in some Europeans of the present epoch. The intercrossing of characters between human groups becomes still more evident from the comparison of numerical data taken from a number of different groups. I shall confine myself for the moment to giving the results arrived at by the study of the stature when the representative numbers are placed in order. We shall presently meet with other examples. I here reproduce the table published in the _Voyage of the Novara_, by Dr. Weisbach. I have added to the figures of the Austrian savant a few data relating especially to the smallest races. I have also given the maxima and minima where I have been able to procure them, so as to make the extent of the variation more appreciable than is possible from the average alone: STATURE OF DIFFERENT HUMAN RACES. m. ft. in. Bosjesmans (min.) } 1·100 3 3·37 Esquimaux (min.) } Obongo (young) 1·360 4 5·64 Bosjesmans (av.) } 1·370 4 5·93 Mincopees (min.) }