PROVISIONAL REPORTS AND NOTICES. 449 
teresting. What may be the relative differences in stature and 
dimensions, between males and females ? 
2. Is there any prevailing disproportion between different 
parts of the body? as, for example, in the size of the head, the 
deficient or excessive development of upper or lower extremi- 
ties. 
3. What is the prevailing complexion? This should be ac- 
curately defined, if possible, by illustrative and intelligent ex- 
ample, such as by comparison with those whose colour is well 
known. The colour of the hair should be stated, and its cha- 
racter, whether fine or coarse, straight, curled, or woolly. The 
colour and character of the eyes should likewise be described. 
Is there, independently of want of cleanliness, any perceptible 
peculiarity of odour? 
4. The head is so important as distinctive of race, that particu- 
lar attention must be paid to it. Is it round or elongated in 
either direction, and what is the shape of the face, broad, oval, 
lozenge-shaped, or of any other marked form? It will contri- 
bute to facilitate the understanding of other descriptions, to 
have sketches of several typical specimens. A profile, and also 
a front view should be given. In the profile, particularly notice 
the height and angle of the forehead, the situation of the meatus 
auditorius, and the form of the posterior part of the head. It 
will also be desirable to depict the external ear, so as to convey 
the form and proportion of its several parts. The form of the 
head may be minutely and accurately described by employing 
the divisions and terms introduced by craniologists, and the 
corresponding development of moral and intellectual character 
should in conjunction be faithfully stated. So much of the 
neck should be given with the profile as to show the setting on 
of the head. The advance or recession of the chin, and the 
character of the lips and nose, may likewise be given in profile. 
The front view should exhibit the width of forehead, temples, 
and cheek-bones, the direction of the eyes, and the width between 
them : the dimensions of the mouth. When skulls can be col- 
_ lected or examined, it would be desirable to give a view in an- 
other direction, which may even be done, though with less ac- 
curacy, from the living subject. It should be taken by looking 
down upon the head from above, so as to give an idea of the 
contour of the forehead, and the width of the skull across from 
one parietal protuberance to the other. 
5. State whether the bones of the skull are thick, thin, heavy, 
or light. Is it common to find the frontal bone divided by a mid- 
dle suture or not? Note the form of the outer orbitar process, 
which sometimes forms part of a broad scalene triangle, with 
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