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which contains the substance of our knowledge of this question, 

 our former acquaintance with it being based on spread and 

 h'ttle informing notes in different travels (Clavering — Graah). 



The named representation gives a full portrait of the 

 appearance of the East-Greenlanders, and when I nevertheless 

 think that the following remarks may be of some interest, it is 

 essentially because the material has been added to by my 

 measurements — from 46 to 86 — and my material, the 

 measurements having been made according to the same prin- 

 ciples, may be compared with the former. 



The greater the number of examined individuals, the better, 

 of course, the chance of a reliable result. 



I have not measured individuals already measured by cap- 

 tain Holm in 83 — 85. it might certainly have been tempting 

 to measure just the same individuals again to examine how the 

 nearly 14 years had influenced the development of the structure 

 of their bodies. But partly 1 believe that by so small differences 

 that would be in question here, no guarantee could be obtained 

 of sufficient exactness with the employed systems of measure- 

 ment and two different examiners, partly it would certainly have 

 been possible to examine only very few of the formerly mea- 

 sured. — Having had opportunity to examine only the Angmag- 

 salik-Eskimaux, the following remarks will of course only refer 

 to these. The representation is based solely on the examina- 

 tion of living individuals. A collection of craniums and some 

 bones of the pelvis brought home by the expedition will namely 

 later on be revised by another together with the very conside- 

 rable and interesting material of Greenland craniums in the 

 possession of our anatomical Museum. 



The average size of the 40 measured is for men 1611, for 

 women 14771^1". But excluding respectively 3 men and 1 woman 

 the average numbers become 1624 and 1491 (max.: 1745 and 

 1550, min.: 1490 and 1398). These 4 are mentioned as 17—18 

 years old, but in my notes as not yet wearing natit, an article 



