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issued by learned societies and journals. Of especial note have 

 been his studies on the prehistoric peoples of the coasts of the 

 Mediterranean; on the native tribes of Melanesia; on human 

 degeneration and criminal anthropology; on the characteristics of 

 the female sex; and, in American subjects, on the physical anthro- 

 pology of the Fuegians, on skulls of the Omaguas, on ancient 

 Peruvian skulls, and general considerations on American skulls. 

 His attention has been fruitfully attracted to the pigmy races 

 of Europe and to the varieties of the human species found in mod- 

 ern and ancient Russia, especially to the remains exhumed from 

 the " kourgans," or ancient sepulchral tumuli, which exist in 

 various districts of that state. 



D. G. Brinton. 



