W. C. Wells’s theory relating black skin-colour and immunity to malaria may be true. Has seen Negroes come down with fever, but these were generally light in colour.
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W. C. Wells’s theory relating black skin-colour and immunity to malaria may be true. Has seen Negroes come down with fever, but these were generally light in colour.
Ideas of female beauty of W. African Negroes are on the whole the same as those of Europeans.
Pleased CD is quoting him in Descent.