The Mortal Remains of Swedenborg 47 



measurements of the cranimTi in question and of Swedish crania in 

 general (See Table III.). I have chosen, as material for this compa- 

 rison, in the first place, a collection of male crania from the Cathedral 

 and from old burial places in Upsala, Avhieh have not been used since 

 the close of the ISth century. These crania, 108 in number, thus 

 date back to Swedenborg's own times and the immediately preceding- 

 centuries. For the measurements of these skulls my thanks are due 

 to the Amanuensis G. Vallentin, who has made far-reaching, as yet 

 unpublished investigations of the cranial material in the Anatomical 

 Museum in Upsala. Besides this. I have included in the tables some 

 50 crania of masculine type from graves of the stone, bronze and 

 iron ages from different parts of Sweden, measured and described by 

 G. Retzius in his work Crania Sueclca Antiqua 24 (with an Appendix iJ")). 

 For the calculation of the mean values I am myself responsible. Be- 

 sides the mean values, there are also incorporated in the table the 

 maximal and minimal values within the several groups. 



In the first place, it will be seen from the table, that the measure- 

 ments of the cranium present in Swedenborg"s coffin fall, without ex- 

 ception, within the limits of variation of Swedish crania, and that the 

 de^•iations from the mean values of these latter, can in general not 

 be regarded as very great. The anthropological measurements thus 

 give us, in any ease, no cause to doubt that our cranium is of Swedisli 

 nationality. The table further goes to prove that the lengtii and the 

 circumference in the horizontal plane of our skull, and, in still greater 

 measure, its transverse diameter, exceeds the average for both 

 groups, whereas its height is not inconsiderably lower than their ave- 

 rage height. 



The length-breadth index of our cranium (78. is) exceeds the two 

 average indices, presented in the table, by from 3 to 4 units. These 

 indices are both dolichocephalic, if also quite near the border of the 

 mesaticephals: our cranium is mesaticepimlic and stands somewhat 

 nearer to the brachyeephals than to the dolichocephals. That no great 

 weiglit should be attached to this difference, is clear from the fact 

 that about 15°/o of the Upsala crania, and 22°, o of the prehistoric 

 crania, have a larger index than the present skull. In this connection 

 it also deserves to be mentioned that according to the calculations of 

 Prof. G. Retzius in Anthropologia Suecica 26 the cranial index for 

 Swedish men of 21 years of age at the present day is on an average 

 75.855 and that 31 7o of them possess an index of 78. or more. 



