ABSTRACT
IN the last chapter I have been considering the form and distribution of the races of Asia at the present time. The origin of these races is a matter of the greatest interest to all students of ethnology, and is of particular interest in Asia, owing to the claims which that continent has to being the original home of large groups of mammalian forms. But owing to its vast extent and also to the inaccessibility of much of the continent, we have almost less exact information on this branch of the study of Asiatic peoples than of any other branch.
