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On the reuirn trij) a sto]) was made at Hawaii, and with the kind 

 assistance of the staff of the Bernice Panalii Bishop Musetim at 

 Honokdu. and particularly of Dr. Gregory and ^Ir. Stokes, some 

 studies were carried out on the native Hawaiians in several of the 

 most favorable localities. It was found that the Hawaiians. even 



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Flo. t-7. — Chinese woman witli artificially de- 

 formed feet, at Peking. This crippling deforma- 

 tion is still extensively practised by the Chinese. 

 A Chinese woman without deformed feet is not 

 regarded as " comme il faut." 



where free from historic admixture with whites or negroes, present 

 an old blend of several ethnic elements ( yellnw-brown. Indo-Euro- 

 pean, and Xegro or Negrito j : this blend, however, has already 

 reached a degree of approach to physical unity which permits the 

 student to deal with it as with a racial :-ubvariety or subtype. But 

 this subtype is rapidly vani-hing through new contacts. 



