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in foiir figures; in the female it is farther from it. The difference in 

 the female may amount to as much as 200 units, which appears 

 never to be equaled in the male. 



The cranial-capacity data on the Eskimo are given in the following 

 table. They show much similarity, which would doubtless be even 

 more striking were all the series fully adequate and equal in number. 

 There are, unfortunately, not yet enough data for racial com- 

 parisons. 



Eskimo: Cranial capacity 



Group 



Yukon 



West coast 



Nunivak Island 



Nelson Island 



St. Michael Island 



Sledge Island 



Wales 



Metlatavik 



St. Lawrence Island and Punuk... 



Point Hope. — 



Southampton Island 



Greenland (mainly northwestern) . 



Capacity in cc. 



Male 



(18) 

 1, 520. 



(17) 

 1, 489. 



(46) 



1, 504. 



(9) 



1, 566. 



(8) 



1,461.0 



(19) 



1, 472. 



(15) 



1,512.0 



(155) 



1, 465. 



(126) 



1, 475. 



(10) 



1, 558. 



(45) 



1, 527. 



Female 



(21) 

 1,371.0 



(14) 

 1, 339. 



(66) 

 1, 353. 



(14) 



1, 334. 



(6) 



1, 293. 



(9) 



1, 346. 



(20) 

 1,361.0 



(20) 



1, 342. 



(134) 



1, 334. 



(84) 

 1, 316. 



(38) 

 1, 295. 



F : M 

 relation 



90.3 

 89.9 

 90.0 



85. S 

 88.5 



91.1 



Capacity module 

 relation 



Male Female 



99.1 

 97.6 

 96. 8 

 100.4 

 95.5 



95.2 

 97. i 

 95.0 

 95.7 



9S.1 

 91.2 

 90.8 

 91.1 

 87. S 

 90.0 

 91.2 

 91.3 

 90.0 

 89.1 



General Eskimo, means. 



{., 



(468) 

 485.0 



(426) 

 1, 320. 



9.0 



97.5 



It is regrettable that up to the present time we do not have similar 

 data on the White people, at least. There are fairly numerous data 

 on the capacity of the White and other crania, but they have been 

 taken by several differing methods and the results are not strictly com- 

 parable either with the records presented here or one with another. 



What is plain from the above figures is that the Eskimo cranial 

 capacity, and hence the size of the brain, is by no means inferior to 

 the Whites, particularly when we consider that in general the Eskimo 

 are of decidedly lower stature than the Whites. 



The female-male relation in the dimension is less than that in sta- 

 ture. Thus on St. Lawrence Island the relation in stature between 

 63 adult nonsenile males and females is 92.7, which is about identical 

 with that in Old White Americans (92.9) ; that in the Eskimo capacity 



