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I have not myself had the opportunity of examining several of the 

 populations enumerated in this table; reiving, however, on data de- 

 rived from various sources, I venture to pronounce the opinion that 

 they all ought to be ranged among the Brachycephahe. It seems, 

 indeed, a feature in the order of the world that all the dominant races 

 of eastern Europe, which occupy the vast tract of Russia in Europe, 

 Turkey, Greece, and a great part of the Austrian empire, are brachy- 

 cephalic. • 



Many interesting skulls belonging to some of the tribes just enu- 

 merated have been recently received by the museum of Stockholm. 

 Thus the celebrated anatomist of Vienna, Professor Hyrtl, has sent 

 me the skull of a Croat of the military frontier, characterized by its 

 height, its capacity, and its almost cubic form; also a Morlac skull 

 from Daltnatia, large, lofty, and bracbjcephalic. Several Slovac 

 skulls from Olmutz have been procured for me by Professor Bons- 

 dorff, with two Esthonian skulls, a Turkish, and several Finnish ones. 

 Professor Willebrand, of Helsingfors, has sent me two Carelian skulls. 

 Moreover, I have myself examined several living Rhetians, as well as 

 Basques; and I have received from Dr. Eugene Robert, of Paris, some 

 superb Basque heads for our museum. On different occasions I have 

 met with brachycephahe Scots from northern Scotland and the isles to 

 the north of it. During my last sojourn in Scotland I encountered again 

 divers individuals pertaining to this same type, having an expression 

 altogether peculiar, their visage being often short and somewhat large, 

 their hair red, the skin of their faces marked with freckles. Since 

 then I have learned from the report of travellers that this type is 

 common in the Highlands, where it is indigenous from a remote an- 

 tiquity. I suppose that it has descended from the Finns, or perhaps 

 the Basques.* 



B. — Forms of the Skull in Asia. 



Dolichocephalai of Asia. 



Orthognathic. 



Hindoos, 

 Arian Persians, 

 Arabs, 

 Jews, 



r\i -^ ' {-Prognathic, 



t/hmese, j ° 



The area inhabited by these populations is restricted to the southern 

 regions of the great Asiatic continent, viz: the following countries: 



* Since this was written, the author has been able to examine a considerable number of 

 skulls of Tuscany, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tyrol, and Switzerland, and has arrived at the 

 conviction that the brachycephalic form prevails in those countries in company with the 

 black color of the hair. The same remark may be made with regard to a majority of the 

 inhabitants of Baden, Wirtemberg, and Bavaria. In France, the Basques offer the same 

 characters as to the form of the head and color of the hair. It is nearly the same with 

 the population of Saxony and Austria. In these last countries the population is, without 

 doubt, of Sclavic origin, while it is probably of Greek origin in Italy, Tyrol, and Switzer- 

 land. — Note by the anchor. 



