The Mortal Remains of Swedenborg. 



of the subject (Fig. 7) and prepared the skeleton. The resemblance 

 of the two skulls — that is to say of their brain cases — is quite 

 striking, as a comparison between the figures shows. The following 

 table, in which the principal anthropological measurements are placed 

 side by side, gives evidence of how little the dimensions of the skulls 

 differ. 



The Wellclose The Upsala 



Square skull skull 



Length 21.9 cm 21.o cm 



Breadth 12.6 » i2.o » 



Height 13.8 » 14.6 » 



Zygomatic breadth 13.o » 13.i » 



Frontal breadth 10.8 » 9.7 » 



Frontal height 7.75 » 7.25 » 



Cranial index 57.5 57. i 



The facial portions of the skulls 

 indeed present several differences, for 

 instance, as to the form of the eye- 

 sockets, cheeks and teeth, but the agree- 

 ment between their cerebral portions 

 is all the more striking. Their general 

 form is almost identical and they differ 

 only in a few details. On the Well- 

 . close Square skull the forehead is a 

 little broader, on the Upsala skull a 

 little higher. The latter has a still 

 more regularly curving contour line 

 (compare Figs. 2 and 4); on the London 

 skull the front is a little more pro- 

 truding and the back of the head more 

 downhanging. — The indexnumbers 

 especially merit attention as being 

 extraordinarily low. It deserves per- 

 haps to be mentioned, to elucidate 

 the matter, that in Sweden, where, 

 however, the average cranial index is 

 relatively low, not one out of 10,000 skulls has an index of or below 60. 



The question now arises: may it at all be supposed that Swe- 

 denborg had a scaphocephalic skull? A priori the possibility cannot 



Fig. 7. Death-mask of the scaphocephalic 



indi-vidual, whose skull is represented 



in. Figs. 3. i and 6. 



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