86 REPORT—1849, 

On Tumuli in Yorkshire. By Joun Puiruirs, F.RS. 
In this communication the author explained, by descriptions of certain parts of 
the old Brigantian territory, and notices of the contents of tumuli which had been 
opened therein, the kind of aid toward tracing the physical character of ancient in- 
habitants of Britain which researches into tumuli might be expected to yield. 
By recent excayations into tumuli on the dry chalk wolds, skulls of British, Anglo- 
Saxon, and Danish periods had been discovered, and as far as they had been inter- 
preted they seemed to confirm the opinion that essential differences existed between | 
the crania of Celtic and Teutonic.races. Authentic data on this subject have been 
rarely produced in Britain ; but the search for them appears likely to add the valuable 
evidence of physical structure to the conclusions of philology. 
On a Finlandic Vocabulary. By Prof. Rerzius. 

On certain American, Celtic, Cimbric, Roman and Ancient British Skulls. 
’ By Prof. Rerzius. 
‘his paper consisted in the application of the theory of Arndt, Rask and others, 
as to the general diffusion of a race akin to the Finns over the whole of Europe 
anterior to the immigration of the Indo-European tribes. The Celt, generally con- 
sidered as the earliest inhabitant of the British Isles, has a skull remarkable for its 
diameter from front to back. Such, also, are the skulls found in barrows of se- 
condary antiquity. In the most ancient, however, the skull has its chief develop- 
ment from side to side; the conformation of the aboriginal nations hypothetically 
allied to the Finn and Laplander. 
STATISTICS. 
On the Application of Statistics to the Investigation of the Causes and Pre- 
vention of Cholera. By Prof. W. P. Auison, M.D. 

On Prussian Statistics. By Chevalier Bunsen. : 
Tue author made a statistical statement of the proportions of the races in Prussia, 
and on the railroads and schools of that country. His information was chiefly derived 
from the ‘ Statistischen Tabellen des Preussischen Staats,’ by M. Dieterici, the head — 
of the Statistical Bureau at Berlin, and from private information supplied by the same 
gentleman. We give a few of the points of this communication. Prussia had, ex-— 
clusive of Neufchatel, 15,536,734 inhabitants. At the end of 1846, 16,112,938. 
It therefore ranks fifth as to population of the European States. From Dieterici’s 
tables we find the population of the great States in 1843 was as follows :— 
European Russia, with Poland............s0++0 54,762,207 
Austrian empire,............65 Meee suepicn tesa esse 30,877,904 
GAN CE es haraek tcncitansdsnsacesen tine tansinaeaceatsbes 34,230,178 
Bigol stil sent eenpstesareasceaaesacs src esanacean eco ee. 26,991,517 
Cuesta tactidiwancttsnces Ath eee Five okt sessseeeee 15,586,734 
Prussian Germany contains 1,940,000 Sclavonic inhabitants. There are in the world 
42,000,000 who speak German. In the United States, 4,750,000 of Germans, or 
their immediate descendants, still speaking German. In Pennsylvania, 49 per cent 
are German speaking people. In Prussia a census is carefullytaken every third year, 
In 1815 Prussia had 10,250,000 inhabitants. The increase of population from 1815 
to 1849 cannot be less than 6,250,000; for according to the constant proportion of 
increase, the census of 1849 will give a total nearer to 17 millions than to 16 millions 
