The races of Yucatan, Morocco, and Lapland, including race mixture and race analysis, is now being studied by Dr. E. A. Hooton, of the Department of Anthropology, it was made known yesterday.
Through field workers, Dr. Hooton's studies are being carrie on in three widely different parts of the world. Men are now investigating in Africa, North and Central America, and in Europe.
Dr. C. S. Coon '25 is studying the Riffians and other Berbers, Arabs, and mixed types in Morocco. Dr. Coon has already acquired 1,000 anthropometric records, photographs, blood samples, and sociological records of hitherto unstudied peoples.
Data on Tunisian Jews, Algerian Kabyles, Oasis Mixed-Bloods, and Eastern Libyans in the Oasis of Siwa, Dahkla, and elsewhere is being collected by H. H. Kidder '99 and W. B. Cline '26.
In Europe, studies of more than 1,000 Finns, Lapps and Racial Crosses among these peoples have been carried on during the last year by Martin Luther '26, who is now elaborating his statistics and data in Cambridge.
The work being done in America includes the study of Mulattos in the United States by Caroline Day, who for the past nine months has been gathering genealogies, photographs, measurements and sociological data on more than 300 families; the study of Finns, Armenians and Syrians in Eastern Massachusetts by Martin Luther; and the study of Indians, Whites and "Crosses" in Yucatan, begun this month by Dr. and Mrs. G. D. Williams '20, and carried on with the cooperation of the Carnegie institution. Dr. and Mrs. Williams are gathering data on the entire population of three Yucatan village communities.
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