ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND RACE=BIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 47 



race«biology and done it with so much success that the authorities in the State 

 have now considered the time ripe to found a Swedish Race^biological Institution 

 under his direction (see an account of this page 48). 



Already in 1899 we find an article in Hygiea on myoclonus in families, in 

 which quarter' his interest lies. He describes there this uncommon and peculiar 

 disease, which has since received the name of myoclonus^epilepsy, and is only 

 found in one place in the south of Sweden. During the years which followed he 

 drew attention to it in several treatises, among them being a monograph »Die pro= 

 gressive Myoclonus»Epilepsie» (1903). In the years 1908 he again took up the 

 investigations and then thoroughly examined the large and at present degenerated 

 farmer family in which many cases of the above mentioned disease have appeared. 

 The result of five years work in this district was presented by Lundborg in an 

 important work: »Medizinisch5biologische Familienforschungen innerhalt eines 

 2,232 kopfigen Bauerngeschlechtes in Schweden» (Text u. Atlas, Jena 1913). This 

 work which has won recognition among experts in every country is the most 

 complete family investigation, built on medicaUgenealogical grounds which, taken 

 as a whole, is in existence. In this work Lundborg treats of several weighty race* 

 biological questions, and he shows very plainly that myoclonus«epilepsy is inhe« 

 rited in fact as a recessive factor according to Mendel's law. This is the first 

 time that anyone has succeeded in showing exactly, that the disposition for the 

 dise ase appears as a recessive unit in mankind. 



Professor Lundborg himself gives a very brief account of these investigations 

 of his in this work (see page 57). 



During recent years Lundborg has been busy with race»biological studies 

 among Swedes, Finns, and Lapps in the most northern parts of Sweden and at 

 the same time he observed attentively the biological effects of a mixture of race 

 and of intermarriage. In several articles in Hj^giea, Svenska Lakaresallskapets 

 Handlingar (The Swedish Medical Society's Proceedings) and Hereditas he has 

 recently taken up the treatment of questions of this kind and thinks it may be 

 found that higher stature, increasing disposition for tuberculosis as well as certain 

 signs of »degeneration», stand in some connection with the crossing of races. 



By means of arranging National and Race^type Exhibitions in several parts of 

 Sweden in 1919 and by popular works (among them Swedish NationaUtypes) 

 Lundborg has helped strenuously in awakening the interest of a greater public in 

 anthropological, race^biological and eugenic questions in Sweden. 



STANDARD WORKS ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND RACE.BIOLOGY. 



Anders Retzius: Om formen av Nordboarnes kranier (1842). — Gustaf Ret» 

 zius: Finska kranier (1878); Crania Suecica antiqua (1900); Das Menschenhirn 

 (1896). — G. Retzius and C. M. Furst: Anthropologia Suecica (1902). — Gustaf 

 v. Duben: Om Lappland och Lapparne. Etnografiska studier. Stockholm 1873; 

 Crania Lapponica. Stockholm 1910. — C. M. Furst and Fr. C. C. Hansen: Cra« 

 nia Groenlandica. Copenhagen 1915. — H. Lundborg: Medizinisch:=biologische 

 Familienforschungen innerhalb eines 2,232 kopfigen Bauerngeschlechtes in Schweden. 

 Text u. Atlas. G. Fischer Jena 1913. H. Lundborg: Svenska Folktyper, Bildgalleri, 

 ordnat efter rasbiologiska principer. Stockholm, A.=B. Hasse W. Tullberg 1919. 



f I 



