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Søren Hansen. 



65^/2° and 66° N. Lat., in the district round Captain Holm's 

 wintering place Angmagsalik , has hitherto had practically no con- 

 tact with the Danish colonies, while there is continous communi- 

 cation between the latter and the population on the southern part 

 of the East coast, where the bodily height does not differ greatlj^ 

 from that of the West Greenlanders. 



If we consider the East coast as a whole, the average height 

 for 53 men is 1629 mm and for 38 women 1538 mm; in this case 

 too the average height will be found to be slightly greater than on 

 the West coast, where it is 1620 mm in the case of men and 

 1520 mm in the case of women. 



As compared with other peoples, the East Greenlanders are no 

 doubt below middle height (1650 mm), but yet above the accepted 

 maximum standard for small races (1600 mm), and notably taller 

 than many Asiatic races, such as Ostiaks (1560), Samoyedes (1595), 

 Japanese (1598) and the different groups of the Indochinese race 

 (from 1525 to 1600) as well as Bushmen (1444) Negritos (c. 1500) 

 and a number of other African, South-American and Australian tribes^). 



If we now group them in classes according to height with an 

 addition of 5 cm, we shll find the results in fair accordance 

 with the calculated average. 



Height 



Men 



1 



Women 



1400—1450 mm 



1 



3 



1450 1500 



4 



3500—1550 



6 



17 



1550-1600 



10 



• 9 



1600-1650 



15 



5 



1650-1700 



15 



— 



1700-1750 



5 



— 



1750-1800 



1 



— 



Total... 



53 



38 



This may be regarded as a capital verification of the correct- 

 ness of the results, of particular value in consideration of the small 

 numbers. 



I attach less importance to the arrangement according to age- 

 classes which is given below, partly because the figures are in this 

 case too small, and partly because the results would be quite diffé- 

 rent, if the grouping were in periods of 10 years, instead of as here 

 in periods of 5 years. 



Cf. Topinard: Klements d'Anthropologie generale. Paris 1885. 



