INTRODUCTION. 



the Crania Americana were made witli seeds, whicli will explain tlie dis- 

 crepancy between the numbers observable in that work and this Cata- 

 logue. The measurements of the Crania ^gyptiaca having been origin- 

 ally made with shot, require no revision ; nor can I avoid expressing my 

 satisfaction at the singular accuracy of this method, since a skull of an 

 hundred cubic inches, if measured any number of times with reasonable 

 care, will not vary a single cubic inch. 



I am now engaged in a memoir* which will embrace the detailed con- 

 clusions that result from these data ; and meanwhile I submit the follow- 

 ing tabular view of the prominent facts : 



TABLE III. Showing the Size of the Brain in cubic inches, as obtained from the 

 internal measwement o/"663 Crania of various Races and Families of Man. \ 



RACES AND FAMILIES. 



Modern Caucasian Group. 



Teutonic Family. 



Swedes 



Germans ) - ^ , 



Prussians > 



English 



Anglo-Americans 



Tchudic Family. 



True Finns 



Celtic Family. 

 Native Irish 



Pelasgic Family. 



Persians 



Armenians 



Circassians 



Semitic Family. 

 Arabs 



Nilotic Samily. 



Fellahs 



Indostanic Family. 



Ayras 



Bengalees 



Ancient Caucasian Group. 

 ^A ) Pelasgic Family. 



~ i 1 Graeco-Egyptians 



I S j Miotic Family. 



^o J Egyptians 



Mongolian Group. 



Chinese Family 



Hyperborean Family , 



Malay Group. 



Malayan Family 



Polynesian Family 



Ameeioan Group. 



Toltecan Family 



Peruvians 



Mexicans 



Barbarous Tribes. 



Iroquois 



Lenape 



Cherokee 



Shoshone, &c 



Negro Group. 



American-born Negroes 



Native African Family 



Hottentot Family 



Alforian Fam^Uy 



Australians 



Oceanic Negroes 



NO. or 



SKULLS. 



11 



15 



5 



7 



LARGEST 

 1. C. 



SMALLEST. 

 I. C. 



10 



3 



18 



IS 

 55 



10 



S 



20 

 5 



152 

 25 



164 



12 



64 



3 



8 

 2 



108.25 

 114 



105 



97 



112.5 

 97 



94 



98 

 96 



91 



90 



97 



96 



98 

 102 



97 

 90.5 



101 

 92 



104 



86 

 99 

 83 



83 



77 



05 

 70 



91 



82 



81.5 

 78 



84 



66 



79 

 67 



73 



68 



70 

 78.75 



68 

 82 



58 

 67 



69 



73 



65 

 68 



63 



76 



93 



95 



96 

 90 



94.3 



87 



84 



89 



79 



86 

 78 



87 

 80 



85 



89 



86 

 84.3 



75.3 

 81.7 



[93.5 



81.7 



84 



80.8 

 83.7 

 75.3 



75 

 76.5 



1 87 

 I 85 



1 

 [80.3 



I 



I 



I 



82.25 



* Dr. Morton died before this memoir was completed. Extracts from it will be found in the fore- 

 going Explanatory Note. 



1 1 have enlarged this Table by the addition of 40 measurements, with the effect of increasing the 

 mean cranial capacity of the Teutonic Family, the Mongolian and American Groups, by 1.5, 5, and 

 1.3 cubic inches respectively; and slightly diminishing that of the Negro Group. In the preceding 

 Explanatory Note the reader will find a more detailed account of these measurements, togcthev 

 with others which have been made since Dr. Morton's death. 



