CONTENTS: 

 PART I. 



Professor Oscar Montelius, Stockholm, The Immigration of our Forefathers 



to the North 7 



Professor Otto von Friesen, Uppsala, Emigration from Sweden in Ancient Times 12 

 Professor Herman Lundborg, Uppsala, The more Important Racial Elements 



that form a part of the present Swedish Nation 24 



Reverend Georg Bergfors, Vittangi, The Swedish National^Character 34 



Professor Martin Ramstrom, Uppsala, Anthropological and Race»biological 



Researches in Sweden 39 



Doctor Hjalmar Anderson, Bergvik, The Swedish State*Institute for Race* 



biological Investigation 48 



Professor Herman Lundborg, Uppsala, The History of a Swedish Farmer's 



Lineage as seen from a Race*biological Stand»point 57 



Professor J. Vilhelm Hultkrantz, Uppsala and Doctor Emanuel Bergman, 



Uppsala, The Struggle for Race»improvement in Sweden 71 



Doctor Emanuel Bergman, Uppsala, The Swedish NationaUtype Exhibition 



1919 81 



Doctor Kaarlo Hilden, Helsingfors, Some Anthropological Data on the In« 



habitants of Swedish and Finnish Extraction in Finland 84 



Professor Ossian Schauman, Helsingfors, Eugenic Work in Swedish Finland 89 

 DocENT Arvid Edin, Uppsala, The Swedish Church Registers and the Demo* 



graphical Science 95 



Docent N. Heribert*Nilsson, Lund, Genetics in Sweden 101 



Professor Herman NilssonsEhle, Lund, Some Remarks on the Work of the 



Swedish Genetic Institute in Akarp 105 



Professor Otto Rosenberg, Stockholm, Genetic Cytology in Sweden 109 



Docent Harry Federley, Helsingfors, Genetics in Swedish Finland 112 



Doctor Hans Tedin, Svalof, Plant Breeding in Sweden 117 



Editor Robert Larsson, Lund, The Mendelian Society in Lund and its Perio* 



dical, Hereditas 127 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Professor Anders Retzius Frontispiece to face page 



Professor Oscar Montelius 8 



Per Henrik Ling, the Father . of Swedish Gymnastics, Professors M. Huss, 



C. M. Furst and G. Retzius 24 



Miss Ellen Key, authoress. Baroness E. Palmstierna, Professors F. Lennmalm 



and H. Lundborg 40 



Dr. C. Swartz, Chancellor of the Universities in Sweden 48 



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