Brief observations on expression in Africa.

Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.

The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.

Sends insect that carries dead ants, dead leaves, etc., on its back, as protective imitation.

The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.

Believes the Jollops select for blackness.

Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.

Has found stone instruments.

Could not go up the Niger, as trading steamers are trying to keep their trade in the dark.

Has seen several albinos, but no blushing. Thinks blacks do blush.

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.

CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.