How do the general characteristics of the cranium agree 

 with the supposition that it is Swedenborg's? 



In order to pass judgment on tlie question as to whether the 

 above-described cranium is really Emanuel Swedenborg's or whether it 

 is a substitute, deposited in the coffin in place of the stolen skull, it 

 is first necessary to find out whether the anatomical characters of its 

 sex and age, and racial characteristics which may be present, agree with 

 the assumption that it is genuine. 



That the cranium in question is masculine and is that of a 

 person of advanced years there is not the slightest doubt. Its size 

 and general type speak at once for the male sex; the protruding gla- 

 bella, the well developed superciliary ridges, the thickened upper edge 

 of the orbits, the relatively slanting forehead \^•ith its slightly develop- 

 ed eminences, the high position of tlie temporal lines,, the powerful 

 mastoid processes, the projecting linea nuchae and the relatively large 

 condyles, are all characteristics of the male cranium. The great dif- 

 ference between the minimal forehead breadth and the breadth at the 

 level of the zygomatieo-f rental sutures, which according to the investi- 

 gations of Prof. E. Clason is also a criterion of the masculine sex, 

 should also be mentioned. Indeed^ hardly a single one of the enume- 

 rated characters could by itself be regarded as an absolute proof, but 

 when they all point together in the same direction, and not aîsingle 

 specific feminine characteristic is present, one may with safety assert 

 that the cranium is that of a man. The circumstance that the brain- 

 case — in perfect agreement with the characterization by the sculp- 

 tor Flaxman, quoted above, page 13, of the skull shown to him — 

 through its »beautiful form» and »undulating line» is somewhat 

 ;, suggestive of the feminine cranial type, can not be considered as a 



