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the blood relationship and consequent origin of races, and finally 

 of mankind itself. This extension of the metric method, however, 

 implies and emphasizes the need of a much more extended ob- 

 servation, the lack of which delays our knowledge of the distri- 

 bution of types among the great races; and hence we return once 

 more to the fact that to ascertain the distribution of the types 

 and races of mankind is the fundamental problem, embracing in 

 its scope all problems of somatology; and this problem requires 

 immediate and earnest attention and widely extended investiga- 

 tion. 



