628 ANNUAL REPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1912. 



This would prove that the Slavs of Russia were quite dolichoce- 

 phalic and blond in the beginning, but became brachycephalic and 

 brown exclusively under the influence of evolution, not owing to 

 mixture. 



We believe, then, that we have indicated the principal regions of 

 Europe where the neolithic dolichocephals of the German type have 

 been found, and it will be noticed that neither Belgium nor France 

 have been considered, because the neolithic dolichocephals of these 

 countries are not of the German type, properly speaking, although 

 there may have been some connection between them. 



As regards the so-called Merovingian skulls which have been found 

 in France, it is well known that they come from immigrants in 

 historic time. 



There remains Switzerland, where prehistoric dolichocephals of the 

 German type ^ have been met with, but they are skulls of mimi- 

 grants. Upon what gi'ound is the assumption based that they are 

 skulls of immigrants? Upon the fact that before them there were 

 already in that country other races of an entirely different type, as 

 has been shown by human bones found there. The skulls which 

 were anterior to those of the German type are brachycephalic, so- 

 called Laponoid resembling those of the race of Grenelle, which, in 

 their turn, are again the descendants of another dolichocephalic race, 

 representing the oldest race of Switzerland. 



The Laponoid brachycephals should be distinguished from another 

 prehistoric brachycephalic race of a finer type than that met with in 

 Switzerland in the Bronze and Iron Ages, and which proceeded from 

 the German dolichocephalic race, like that which has passed away in 

 Germany and other countries mentioned in our description. 



Thus the succession of the different prehistoric races in Switzer- 

 land, from our point of view, is as follows: 



1. The primitive dolichocephalic race. 



2. Laponoid brachycephals (not Lapps), issued from the preceding. 



3. German dolichocephalic race. 



4. Brachycephalic race, issued from the preceding. 



At present brachycephaly predominates in Switzerland. 



FREQUENCY OF BRACHYCEPHALY AMONG WOMEN IN THE COURSE 



OF EVOLUTION. 



It has already been noted several times that in certain tombs, 

 which contained a more or less large number of dolichocephals and 

 only a few brachycephals, that it was the female sex which most 

 frequently presented brachycephaly or mesaticephaly. Lissauer and 



1 His and Rutimeyer. Crania Helvetica, Basel 1864. Stiider et Barnwarth. Crania helvetica antiqua. 

 Leipzig, 1894. 



