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 EPILOGUE. 283 another manuscript has proved to be of great importance, as one example will demonstrate: In parts where there was a great immigration, as in the island of Zante at the end of the fifteenth century, we find hundreds of family names taken from the files of death certificates. We find these names from the time mentioned down to the present time, and can determine the place whence the individuals came and where they settled with a most surprising exactness and certainty. There is a map adorning the wall of the An- thropological Museum the like of which has never been executed before in any country. It is a map of Greece during the Middle Ages, with the names of all the villages, places, mountains, rivers, etc., as they were found by the extensive researches in history, in chronicles, in archives, in documents, and in papers that I have men- tioned. One volume belonging to Dr. Stephanos* great work of studying the anthropology of his country in a more satisfactory manner and more thoroughly than was ever done anywhere before, gives the provincialisms, the dialects, and pho- nological characters of all the words for things, as already mentioned, relating to agricultural,