200 HUMAN FOSSILS. in 



collection to possess a single skull which is not bi- 

 sected longitudinally — until the angles and meas- 

 urements here mentioned, together with a number 

 of others of which I cannot speak in this place, are 

 determined, and tabulated with reference to the 

 basicranial axis as unity, for large numbers of skulls 

 of the different races of Mankind, I do not think 

 we shall have any very safe basis for that ethno- 

 logical craniology which aspires to give the ana- 

 tomical characters of the crania of the different 

 Eaces of Mankind. 



At present, I believe that the general outlines 

 of what may be safely said upon that subject may 

 be summed up in a very few words. Draw a line 

 on a globe, from the Gold Coast in Western Africa 

 to the steppes of Tartary. At the southern and 

 western end of that line there live the most dolicho- 

 cephalic, prognathous, curly-haired, dark-skinned 

 of men — the true Negroes. At the northern and 

 eastern end of the same line there live the most 

 brachyeephalic, orthognathous, straight - haired, 

 yellow-skinned of men — the Tartars and Cal- 

 mucks. The two ends of this imaginary line are 

 indeed, so to speak, ethnological antipodes. A 

 line drawn at right angles, or nearly so, to this 

 polar line through Europe and Southern Asia to 

 Hindostan, would give us a sort of equator, around 

 which round-headed, oval-headed, and oblong- 

 headed, prognathous and orthognathous, fair and 

 dark races — but none possessing the excessively 



