240 Herri/ and Bnchner : 



It is. however, somewhat sif^nitieaiit. that cattle stealing seems to be 

 a (lime committed by yonii<; persons of exceptionally poor mental 

 ability; still more striking is the fact that embezzlement would 

 api)ear to be a crime of middle life, when possil)ly various social 

 causes have tempted the individual of good previous position in 

 society to maintain that position at all hazards; and, lastly, chronic 

 alcfiholism would seem to l)e a disease of middle and old age. A 

 comparison of the table of ages with that of cubic capacity of 

 liiain does not appear to sliow any correlation whatsoever between 

 age and crime. 



From the lengths and l)readtlis of the heads of these criminals 

 we have also worked out the l)readth or cephalic index. It must be 

 noted that the i^esulting indices are those for the heads including 

 the soft parts, as we have not tliought it Avorth while to perform 

 the necessary calculations f<>i- obtaining from the surface anatomy 

 figures those for the skull itself. We find the true man of the 

 cephalic index of the 355 ci-iminals to Jje 78.90 + 0.36, and the 

 standard deviation 3.63 + 0.25. The group, as a group, is thus 

 mesaticephalic, as were also the 3000 criminals examined by 

 Macdonell (14) with an index of 78.538. Of the individual groups, 

 all, with the exception of the forgers, are also mesaticephalic, and 

 the forgers just come into the brachycephalic class with an index of 

 80.36 + 1.64. The results are as follow : — 



Table of the Ct'phalir Indices of ■>■'>'> Crimitutls. 



6 Cattle Stealing - 



15 Assault and Woundinj;- 



.")2 Miscellaneous Crimes - 



144 Larceny 



11 Mnrdei- and Manslaughter 



2() House and Shop-bi'eaking 



■It) Sexual Offences 



.") Embezzlement - 



20 Inebriety 



14 Forgery 



The standard deviations in the above table make it evident that, 

 whilst the whole group is. as stated, and bioadly speaking, mesati- 

 cephalic, yet many of tlic classrs range from (lolichocephaly to 

 brachycephaly. 



As with the age so with the fc]>li;ilic index, tlu've does not appeal" 

 to be any correlation between thi- cephnlir index and ei line. 



Having thus disposed of the (|iiesf ions of age and ceiibalit' index, 

 we may now revert to the major question, namely, the lorrelation 

 between size of head and intelligence. 



