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different Faroe villages, I see no reason to believe that the race is 
physically or mentally degenerate. A point which needs investi- 
gation even more urgently than the ethnology of the Faroes is the 
development of the Icelandic race, which has been more strictly 
isolated than the Faroemen, and in which some interesting peculi- 
arities, I believe myself, might be discovered, even with so rough a 
method of examination as a large series of measurements of living 
individuals. 
It only remains for me to express my thanks to Sir William 
Turner for his encouragement in the study of physical anthro- 
pology, and to Professor D. J. Cunningham, at whose suggestion 
the investigations embodied above were undertaken. 
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