A contribution to Tongan somatology.

According to the Tongan census of 1920 there were at that time 23,128 Tongans in the group.Census returns for the past twenty years show that as a whole the Tongan population is increasing slowly.A temporary decrease was shown in the reports for 1918 and 1919, but returns for 1920 show a slight increase.It is of interest to notice also that there has been considerably less modern mixture with other races than in many other Polynesian groups.'The census of 1917 records only 300 mixed bloods.How accurate this may be I do not know, but since the same census records only 347 Europeans and 529 other Pacific islanders, it is apparent that there have been fewer opportunities and temptations to marry outside the race than there have been in many other places where the aboriginal inhabitants are greatly outnumbered by the Europeans or Orientals.These facts should be borne in mind.