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which are shown on photographs taken from characte- 

 ristic representatives en face and en profile. Not tall, with 

 big heads, belong more to the pure Aleutian type of 

 medium height, seldom tall, the type with small heads. 

 The Mongolia features remained with the whole popu- 

 lation in a small degree, which is most remarkable on 

 children. The most beautiful cross-breed was produced 

 by Yews, Irich and Gypsies. The moral ideas of the 

 population are not of a high standard. From an intellectual 

 view they stand considerably high; civilization grows 

 slowly, but what they appropriate is lasting. The foun- 

 dation of the household in the way as for nationality is 

 the same as those of the Russian colonists, but the private 

 ways and family ideas are not unlike the Aleutian ideas. 

 In general, during my stay for nearly 25 years there, 

 the population has gone ahead in every thing, except 

 religion and sexual morality. Up to 1898 there was no 

 syphilis on the Islands and now one can consider the 

 whole population to have syphilis. On the photographs 

 every where (according to Broka's system) the degree of 

 metization is marked. There are given photographs ot 

 criminal murderers and recidivate thieves. The Russian- 

 Americ. Co made an experiment on the Islands in a 

 small degree by intermingling races, which were far from 

 one another. The result of the experiment proved the 

 admixture attained, which was destined to die out of its 

 own accord, producing an unreliable generation and in 

 some respects an unfertile mixtion. The intermingling of new 

 elements of Aleutian, Slavonic or other blood increases 

 the fertility and gives a more steady generation. This 

 question is worked out principally by myself and affords 

 a subject of special labour. The degeneration of the po- 

 pulation is an undoubted fact, resulting in the dying out 

 of it. 



