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we are certain of is that the long heads represent one derivative of 

 the common human stock : the round heads, of the type here 

 described, belong to a different branch of that stock. 



When we come to study the Shakespeare bust in true profile, 

 there can be no doubt as to the type of man it represents ; he is 

 depicted for us in the Stratford Monument as a representative 

 example of the short-headed type. All but in one respect : the 



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Fig. 2. — Profile of the cast of the skull of Robert Burns — a representative of 

 the long-headed type of man contrasted with a skull of the Bronze Age — 

 a representative of the short or round type. 



dimensions exceed those of any skull of this type known to me. ^Ye 

 have seen that, in length and breadth measurements, Shakespeare's 

 head approaches maximum diameters. This is also true of its height. 

 The bust represents the crown as rising 150 millimetres above the 

 level of the ear-holes — for, although the ears are covered by the 

 ample side-locks of hair, the position of their passages can be fixed 

 approximately. The "auricular" height of the skull — deducting 



