20 DECEMBER 1924, Page 12

RACIAL ORIGINS IN AMERICA

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

your issue of November 15th, Mr. Julian S. Huxley says of the population of the United States : "Roughly 10 per cent. are Negro, only about 20 per cent. Anglo- Saxon." I'd like to know where he gets his figures. The estimate for negroes matches such information as I get, but I have understood that the population of Anglo-Saxon derivation approached 60 per cent.

I can't go into the matter at this moment, but I protest against Mr. Huxley's estimate of 20 per cent. Anglo-Saxon. Ask someone who is an authority : the Census Bureau at Washington perhaps.—I am, Sir, &c.,

EDWARD S. MARTIN.

"Life," 598 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. November 26th.