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 282 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. But not only has he improved the different craniometric methods, but he has devoted himself on a very large scale to the study so as to give all sorts of elements which can be brought in to aid more or less closely the study of anthropology. In order to carry out this plan, thousands of ar- chives, documents, deeds, ecclesiastical, fiscal, and family papers, especially papers of the Middle Ages, papers never before published, had to be studied, and personal inquiries had to be made in all parts, or among the inhabitants of all parts, of Greece. The results of these re- searches, comprising every locality of Greece, myriads of names of places, of mountains, of rivers, of families, of words in all the different dialects for things pertaining to agricultural, pastoral, and domestic life, of words from natu- ral history, names for animals and plants, the geographical domain of each phonetic phenome- non of the Greek dialects, are collected in volu- minous manuscripts which I have had the pleas- ure, the delight, to examine. There is, first, one volume treating of the re- lation of all facts pertaining to invasions, cap- tures, the captives taken, the transportation of these captives, massacres, and depopulation. The collection of family names presented in