A paper read before the British Association for the Advancement of
Science and quoted in _Current Literature_ has an excellent statement
of the physical status of the Negro, placing him high among the races
of the world. The paper concludes that in many points the Negro is more
highly specialized than the less pigmented races of mankind, while in
others he is more primitive. It says that all earlier human races were
probably colored.
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A Negro physician of Stanford, Ky., has patented a car-coupling device.
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Professor Wilder, of Cornell, reports the case of a white man with an
intelligent brain of about one-half the average weight. This is further
evidence that mere brain weight is no indication of mentality.
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