Tasiiui nlan Cranio.. 



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Fig. +. — The Neanderthal (Klaatscli), Australian, and Tasmanian Skulls 

 superposed on Klaatsch's Base. 



T^nfortunately no couiparative data for this method are yet avail- 

 able, and so I can only record these observations without instituting 

 any morphological or evolutionary comparisons. Klaatsch, however, 

 records the measurements of one Australian (see Fig. 1). when the 

 angle at the Zentrum is given at 90 deg., but Wetzel (22), on the other 

 hand, found that in the Australian in no one of this three speci- 

 mens was the angle of 90 deg. 



In the Tas.manian, my investigations show that this Zentrum angle 

 in over 25 per cent, of the crania examined, is exactly 90 deg., but it 

 is obvious that in view of the insufficiency of numbers of the Aus- 

 tralian, and the discrepant results obtained by Klaatsch and Wetzel 

 from those numbers, no comparison can be instituted l)etween my 

 results for the Tasuianian, and those already mentioned for the Aus- 

 tralian, and these apart, there are absolutely no other figures available. 



The Tasmanian crania as drawn by Berry and Robertson (21), were 

 '■ oriented in the Frankfort plane and then drawn by means of 



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