CRANIAL KKMAINS KltOM NKW ZKAI.ANO -liAM.SAY SMITH. I 11 



verse diameters and Welon*;; to skulls that are very lon<i, very 

 narrow, of great cubic capacity and not infrequently of great 

 thickness. 



For the purposes of comparison several important absolute 

 measurements can be made on the .skull and also some approxi- 

 mate ones. Tliese are tabulated (see Table IE) along with those 

 I liave made of the skulls already mentioned and a South 

 Australian skull in the Stuttgart Museum described by Klaatsch. 



The chief feature of the skull is its great length both absolutely 

 and relatively to its l)readth. It is in a very high degree doli- 

 chocephalic, its cephalic index being only 67. The height, 

 unfortunately, can only be estimated comparatively and a|)proxi- 

 matel}'. When Moriori "B" and Whangarei are placed with 

 the occipital bone resting on a table and the nasion in each case 

 sit the same height above the table the top of Whangarei skull 

 stands 2cm. above the top of the Moriori skull. This would 

 give a basi-bregmatic height of 148mm. This estimate can be 

 checked by comparison with other skulls through approximate 

 determination of the nasion jjoint in various ways. The skull 

 theiefoie is remarkable for its height as well as its length, the 

 height also being greater than the Ijieadth. From the measure- 

 ments thus obtained one would estimate, by Topinard's formula 

 modified by Manouvrier, the capacity of this skull at about 

 l,600cc., allowing for thickness and other peculiarities. 



In order to facilitate comparison of the brain-containing portion 

 of t,his Whangarei skull with the corresponding cavity of the two 

 Moriori, four Maori skulls, the Fijian and the Stuttgart South 

 Australian skull, I have made tracings with what rough appli- 

 ances were ready to my hand and have set forth the measure- 

 ments in Table III. Tlie tracings of this skull (fig. 52), and the 

 measurements are made in such a way as to allow them to be 

 compared with Klaatsch's. An examination of the figures will 

 show that the part of the skull that lodges the bruin is very 

 capacious, even after all allowances are made for thickness of the 

 bones and for the projecting mass at the inion, and for the small 

 transverse diameters. The Stuttgart South Australian skull, 

 which is the longest in Klaatsch's list is practically of the 

 same length as the Whangarei skull but is considerably less in 

 the height of its cranial poition, had a capacity of 1,450 cubic 

 centimetres. 



In view of recent researches and speculations regarding the 

 value to be attached to certain characters as primitive features, 

 some remarks are necessary regarding other measurements of the 

 "Whangarei skull. 



