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than on tlie Danish coast itself. The reversion to type is very 

 extraordinary. That is rather a complex question. It is a most 

 interesting subject to which the paper is a very valuable 

 contribution. 



Mr. Martin Rouse. — Might I say that it seems to me that there 

 are, amongst United States Americans of European descent, many 

 men of a Red Indian type. It may be only a casual observation ; 

 but it seems to me that our American brothers ai^e approaching 

 Red Indians in having less hair on their faces than the English. 

 The Indians are remai'kable ail over tlie Continent for having very 

 little hair on their faces. As a rule they have scarcely any ; and 

 I think it is a fact that the Americans of the United States have 

 also very little hair on their faces compared with their kinsmen 

 in this country. They are also taller with higher cheek-bones, 

 and aquiline noses. 



Tlie Bishop of Minnesota. — As to our ISTorth American Indians, 

 it miofht be interesting: to know that all the Northern Indians are 

 men of great stature and are marvellously well built. It is also 

 true that all Indians found in the extreme south are meu of com- 

 paratively short stature ; and the same thing holds with regard to 

 Alaska, for these Indians are also of small stature. 



As to hail" — if any men in the world have marvellous heads of 

 hair it is the ISTorth American Indians. I attribute it to the fact 

 that the head is always uncovered. They pride themselves upon 

 their heads of hair. 



I may also add a veiy gratifying fact in connection with the 

 Indian tribes in the United States. According to the last census 

 there had been an increase of 300 persons, and. in that year the 

 Indians had sold to the United States Grovernment a million 

 dollars' worth of produce. 



[The Bishop here left the meeting, having to meet an engage- 

 ment.]* 



The Author. — I was much pleased to hear the remarks of the 

 Bishop of Minnesota, because one of the conclusions at which I 

 had arrived from the characters which I had the opportunity of 



* The Bishop says in a letter, "Our friend is quite right in his idea 

 that the characteristics of the North American Indian show a noble 

 ancestry. His bravery, hospitality, love of kindred, truthfulness, not 

 less than the structure of his language, show this. All this is emphasized 

 by his religious customs and his traditions." 



