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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, eyebrows, i;or eyelashes, 



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 



Newfoundland dog. The very eyelids 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.' Dr. Bertillon, of 



Paris, compared a hair from Andrian's chin with a very fine 



hair from a man's beard, and found that the latter was three 



times as thick as the former ; and a hair from Andrian's 



head is only one-half as thick as an average human hair. 



Professor Virchow, of Berlin, made careful inquiry into the 



family history of Andrian Jeftichjew. So far as could be 



learned, Andrian was the first in whom this wonderful 



hirsuteness had been noticed. Neither his reputed father 



nor his mother presented any peculiarity of the kind, and a 



brother and sister of his, who are still living, are in no way 



remarkable for capillary development. 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. ' Fedor 



is a sprightly child,' said the account from which we have 



already quoted, 'and appears more intelligent than the father.' 



The growth of down on his 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 longest 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 



