of Andrian Jeftichjew and his son Fedor, who were exhibited 

 on the Continent and in England a few years ago, and whom 

 I had an opportunity of examining during their stay in 

 London. In Paris they were called Us hommes chiens^ and 

 in London, the dog-men, Andrian's face being so covered 

 with hair as to present a striking resemblance to the face of 

 a Skye terrier. His excessive capillary development is not 

 true hair, but simply an abnormal growth of the down or 

 fine hairs which usually cover nearly the entire surface of 

 the human body. Strictly speaking he has neither head-hair, 

 beard, moustache, eye-brows, nor eye-lashes, their place 

 being taken by this singular growth of long silky down. In 

 colour this is of a dirty yellow : it is about three inches in 

 length, all over the face, and feels like the hair of a New- 

 foundland dog. The very eye-lids are covered with this 

 long hair, while flowing locks come out of his nostrils and 

 ears. On his body are isolated patches, strewed, but not 

 thickly, with hairs one and a half to two inches long. The 

 son, Fedor, who was exhibited in company with Andrian, 

 was illegitimate, and about three years of age. Andrian's 

 legitimate children, a son and a daughter, both died young ; 

 nothing is known of the former, but the daughter resembled 

 the father. The growth of down on Fedor's face is not so 

 heavy as to conceal his features, but there is no doubt that 

 when the child comes to maturity, he will be at least as 

 hirsute as his parent. The hairs are as white and as soft as 

 the fur of the Angora cat, and are longer at the outer angles 

 of the eyes. There is a thick tuft between the eyes, and 

 the nose is well covered. The moustache joins the 

 whiskers on each side, after the English fashion, and this 

 circumstance gives to accurate pictures of the child a 

 ludicrous resemblance to a well-fed Englishman about fifty ! 



