b INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



SaxoDS and Anglo-Americans possess the same large average ; while tho 

 mean for the Kelts and Cimbri is several inches less. It is a curious fact, 

 that in the column marked " Kelts," Nos. 21, 42, 52, and 985 exhibit the 

 Gothic type, and have generally the high internal capacity of the Northern 

 races; while Nos. 18, 1186, and 1564, which are of the Cimbric type, 

 possess a lower internal capacity. The Table is not extensive enough to 

 base upon this interesting fact any positive conclusion ; but as far as this 

 fact goes, it appears to indicate that the Cimbric and Keltic types of 

 skull are closely allied, if not indeed identical. 



" I much regret that my cranial series possesses but a single example 

 derived from the Sclavonic race, the skull of a woman of Olmutz, sent me 

 by Prof. Retzius, and which measures only inches.* I record this de- 

 ficiency in my collection, in the hope that some person interested in pur- 

 suits of this nature may be induced to provide me with materials for 

 making the requisite comparisons. My impression is that the Sclavonic 

 brain will prove much less voluminous than that of the Teutonic race." 



"I do not use the term Pelasgic with ethnological precision, but in this 

 designation place the Greeks and Romans, and their descendants in 

 various parts of Europe, Greece and Italy, and in more isolated ex- 

 amples, in Spain, France and Britain. In the same category I place the 

 Persians, Armenians, Circassians, Georgians and many other kindred 

 tribes, together with the Grajco-Egyptians. 



" Of 4 adult Circassian crania, brought me by Mr. Gliddon, two are 

 male and two female. The former, which we may suppose, from appear- 

 ances, to have been associated with a full share of manly beauty, measure 

 90 and 94 cubic inches of internal capacity; the female heads measure 79 

 and 80 ; whence we obtain 86 cubic inches as the mean of all. One of 

 these skulls, that of a woman who had passed the prime of life, is remark- 

 able for the harmony of its proportions, and especially for the admirable 

 conformation of the nasal bones. 



" Of 4 adult Armenian skulls, 3 pertain to men ; and the average size 

 of the brain is but 83 cubic inches. I have felt some hesitancy in admit- 

 ting these skulls in this place, for two reasons : 1st, because their charac- 

 teristics incline almost as much to the Arab type as to the Pelasgic ; and. 

 2dly, because the term Armenian is not always used in a strictly national 

 sense in the East, but is applied to a class of merchants whose ethnologi- 

 cal affinities must be often very mixed and uncertain. 



" I possess, through the kindness of Mr. Gliddon, two female Parsee 

 skulls, which, though small, present a beautiful form. One measures 89 

 cubic inches, the other only 75." 



Of 23 Grajco-Egyptian heads, the highest internal measurement is 97 

 cubic inches, the lowest 73, and the mean 86.11, which is about "7 cubic 

 inches above that of the pure Egyptian race, and but three inches less 

 than the average I have assumed for the Teutonic nations. * * * * 



* I find upon examination, that this head, in its present condition, is incapable of 

 naeaeuremeni, in consequence of the presence ofthe falx cerebri and tentorium. 



