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mij^lit well be, that <i^iveu laorc accurate information as to the 

 precise cause of death in such cases, some more perfect metliod of 

 administering capital punishment might be devised. 



In this connection there is vei y ojiportunely to hand the accounts 

 of the 1912 Dundee meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. In the Anthropology Section, Dr. ¥. 

 Wood-Jones presented a communication on the lesions caused by 

 judicial hanging (4). He stated that during the hrst si-ason's field 

 Work of the Egyptian Government Survey of Nubia tiiere was 

 unearthed in the neighbourhood of Chellal. a series of bodii's buried 

 roughly in trenches, showing the effects of various forms of violent 

 death. There was every indication that thry had been executed in 

 Roman times. One man actually liad the hangman's rope around 

 his neck, and a very large numljer showed a curit)us lesion of the 

 base of the skull. Dr. Wood-Jones was apparently inclined, at the 

 field examinations, to attribute this lesion to the hanging, but a 

 more detailed laboratory search caused him to abandon the opinion, 

 and he concludes by stating tliat " hanging " might imply — (1) 

 the hanging of a corpse, (2) the hanging (strangulation) of a living 

 being, or (3) the dropping and hanging used to-day as the form 

 of judicial death in England. Each had its historical aspect, and 

 its anthropological and pathological interest. 



Our own contribution to the suliject of judicial death by hanging 

 is, therefore, that from the evidence at our disposal, we are in- 

 clined to believe that even the "dropping and hanging" may 

 sometimes imply slower death by suffocation, that is, Wood-Jones's 

 " hanging or strangulation "' of a living being. 



Concerning the subject of the correlation of head size and intel- 

 ligence, we are clearly of opinion that the present paper confirms 

 in every detail our previous results, an<l amounts to this, that the 

 coi-relation undoubtedly holds good foi- the classes, but is, in the 

 cases of individuals, so obscured by othei- pathological and physio- 

 logical causes as to make it idle to endeavotir to predi'"^ intellec- 

 tuality from head measurements alone. 



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 of brain of 355 Melbftui iic criminals." Preceding article. 



2. Lee, Alice. — " Data for tlic iM<.l)Iriii of evolution in Man. — VI. 



