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Virchow, for German skulls, and Matiegha, for Bohemian, have 

 noticed this fact without, however, attempting to explain it. Thus 

 Lissaucr, among 30 skulls of Kaldus, counted 13 dolichocephalic, 13 

 mesaticephalic, and 4 brachycephalic, and 3 of these last ones were 

 of women. 



Virchow, in a communication to the Anthropological Society of 

 Berlin in 1881, on the graves of vSlaboszowo, near Mazilno (Posen), 

 presented the study of 16 skulls, 10 of men and of women, whose 

 cephalic index was 72.5 for the former and 77.8 for the latter. Of 

 the 6 women there were 5 mesaticephalic and 1 brachycephalic, but 

 not one dolichocephalic. 



Among the skulls of other sepulchers which have been measured by 

 different authors there is sometimes only a single brachycephalic 

 found among a certain number of dolichoceptialic ones, and it is pre- 

 cisely the brachyce])halic one that belongs to a woman. It might be 

 objected that it is often difficult to recognize the sex characteristics 

 of a female skull, but in a good many sepulchers the skeletons are 

 intact, which permits of distinguishing the sexes. 



If, therefore, it be assumed that the brachycephals are immigrants, 

 where there are dolichocephals, it must also bo assumed that women 

 only had invaded the localities where only female bracliycephals are 

 found — something uu believable. 



Furthermore, it has already often been remarked that the brachy- 

 cephals were at first found everywhere in small numbers and increased 

 only in the course of centuries. It must then be sup])osed that the 

 brachycephalic men, if they had been the invaders, were scattered 

 over a wide area of land, being, at a certain ])eriod, everywhere in the 

 minority — something which is no less inadmissible. 



To say that the brachycephalic immigration came from unknown 

 parts is a pure h\q)othesis. It must then be supposed that the evolu- 

 tion from the dolichocephalic type to the brachycephalic was first 

 effected in the female sex. In other w^ords, the modification of the 

 cephalic type seems to have made its appearance first in woman. 



Wo could quote other proofs m support of our thesis of the muta- 

 bility of anthropological characteristics, and if it is admitted that a 

 brachycephalic race might descend, without mixture, from a dolicho- 

 cephalic race, which also im])lies the transformation of a blond race 

 into a brown one, the task of historians would be facilitated, and they 

 w"ould thus be able to establish the relationshi]) of certain ])eoples 

 that are divided not only by name and language but also by anthro- 

 pological characteristics. 



In this way could be explained the connection between the blond 

 Celts and the brown ones by assuming that this j)oople was originnlly 

 blond. In the same way it could be explained why the Slavs, whom 

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