INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 5 



'The Anglo-Americans, the lineal descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, 

 conform in all their characteristics to the parent-stock. They possess, in 

 common with their English ancestors, and in consequence of their amal- 

 gamation, a more elongated head* than the unmixed Germans. The few 

 crania in my possession have, without exception, been derived from the 

 lowest and least cultivated portion of the community malefactors, paupers 

 and lunatics. The largest brain has been 97 cubic inches ; the smallest, 

 82 ; and the mean of 90 (nearly) accords with that of the collective 

 Teutonic race. The sexes of these 7 skulls are 4 male and 3 female." 



" The Celts who, with the cognate Gauls, at one period, extended 

 their tribes from Asia Minor to the British Islands, are now chiefly con- 

 fined as an unmixed people to the west and south-west of Ireland, whence 

 have been derived the 6 crania embraced in the Catalogue. These range 

 between 97 as a maximum and 77 as a minimum of the size of the brain ; 

 and the mean, which is 87 cubic inches, will probably prove to be above 

 that of the entire race and not exceed 85." 



In the following table, the reader will find some of the European races 

 compared together in relation to their cranial capacities. 



TABLE L 



European Crania. 



In the above table, the reader will observe the high cranial capacities 

 of the Swedes, Finns, and Germans; he will also perceive that the Anglo- 



* "This peculiarity must continue to develop itself still more obviously in the United 

 States, in consequence of the immense influx of a pure Celtic population from the south 

 and west of Ireland ; for this population by intermarriage with families of English and 

 German descent, while it rapidly loses its own national physiognomy, will leave its traces 

 in a part at least of the Anglo-Saxon race by whom it is every where surrounded." 



