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the East-Greenlanders not at all degenerated, neither mentally 

 nor bodily, might almost prove the untenability of the said 

 theory. Possibly one might imagine the inhabitants of Angmag- 

 salik, at any rate those examined by me, being descended from 

 some very few families in whom the abnormity had accidentally 

 been present and descended by heredity from generation to 

 generation. How far it may be thought to have any importance 

 as race-character for the East-Greenlanders or Eskimaux on the 

 whole can naturally only be decided by far more extensive 

 examinations on this point, also of other races of unmixed 

 Eskimaux. Such are not in hand, as far as I know. However, 

 the great variability of the fact in other races rather tells 

 against the possibility of ascribing such an importance to it. 



As may be seen from the preceding, there is on the whole 

 a rather exact -coincidence between mine and the former mea- 

 surings and observations, so exact, that it must be thought 

 permissible in most points to take all measurings together and 

 use the mean of the averages of the former measurings and 

 mine as an expression of the real facts. 



If the main characters of the bodily structure of the East- 

 Greenlanders should be named in a few words the characteri- 

 zation would be as follows : People strongly built ; somewhat 

 but not much under the average tallness; muscular; arms a 

 little short, if anything; rather tiny and short legs; a very 

 strong, arched and broad chest; a rather well-formed abdomen; 

 small, well-formed hands and feet. The head mesaticephalous, 

 almost amounting to dolicocephalism, the length of the face 

 a little shorter than its breadth; the lower part of the face 

 broad. The nose very variable in form ; most frequently of an 

 average breadth, rather often broad, as a rule straight, rarely 

 slightly curved. The eyes dark-brown with the Mongolian fold, 

 but not "oblique". The ears well-formed, but with fast-grown 

 or missing lobulus auris. The hair dark and straight. Growth 

 of beard and other hairiness rather scarce. The teeth strong, 



