Excerpt from The European Population of the United States: The Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1908 Mediterranean Race one-quarter. Alpine one-sixth. Slavic one-quarter. Teutonic one-sixth. Jewish (mainly Russian) one-eighth. In this year, South Italians take the place of 'the Germans who came in 1882 when the Teutonic immigration was at its flood. One and one-half million Italians have come since 1900; over Russians; and natives of austria-hungary. We have even tapped the political sinks of Europe, and are now drawing large numbers of Greeks, Armenians and Syrians. N 0 people is too mean or lowly to seek an asylum on our shores. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.