Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Discussion of "The Rodiyas of Ceylon" (S258a: 1876)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Third party rendering of words Wallace offered in discussion of
'The Rodiyas of Ceylon' (a paper by Bertram F. Hartshorne read in Glasgow at an early
September 1876 meeting of the Dept. of Anthropology, Section D, Biology, of the British
Association for the Advancement of Science), and printed on page 488 of the 28 September 1876
issue of Nature. To link directly to this page, connect with:
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. . . The president (Mr. Wallace), in moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Hartshorne, said the
Rodiyas were a race of people who, though in a degraded condition, yet possessed physical
characters which seemed to show they were intellectually superior to the races who treated them
in this manner. This might be another of those examples to which he alluded in his address, of a
remnant very fast dying out--a remnant of one of those early higher races which had been
overrun and overcome by a lower race intellectually, but more energetic, and had been reduced to
an extremely degraded position. It was also a valuable example proving that degradation long
continued did not alter to any great extent the physical features of the race. Though they had
been for ages in this degraded condition they retained a fine type of face, almost equal to many
European forms.
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