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The following specimens, to No. 5750 inclusive, illustrate the modifications of form in the 

 skull of the White races : 



5708. A plaster cast of the cranium of an ancient aboriginal of Scandinavia. 



The cranium presents the type of the modern Peruvian, being short, broad, with a high, 

 flattened and slightly unsymmetrical occiput, and with a low and narrow forehead. The 

 glabella is slightly produced ; the nasals are prominent : the orbits are unusually contracted 

 ._.,- in their vertical diameter : the upper jaw is produced. Some of the Australian skulls, 

 Nos. 5314, 5317, 5326, for example, and the Chinese skull, No. 5491, approach the present 

 in the peculiarly depressed orbits, but this would seem to be rather an individual character 

 than one of race. 

 This is the type of a class of skulls called ' brachycephalic,' by the 



Donor, Professor Retzius. 



l>*yu J///&C. ^709. A plaster cast of the cranium of an ancient aboriginal of Scandinavia, regarded 



as the Celt. 



104 ftJl, U^ (i-.(*, t ^ e cramum i g l n g m proportion to its breadth, and resembles in size and shape the 



Gentoo skull, No. 5553. 

 . This is the type of a class of skulls called ' dolichocephalic,' by the 



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The series of ^Ethiopian and Asiatic skulls, above described, show, that although many skulls may 

 be classed as ' long ' and ' short,' such a distinction is artificial, and groups together individual skulls 

 from various natural races of Mankind. 



5710. A plaster cast of the cranium of an ancient inhabitant of Denmark, from the 

 island of M6en ' 



((( fa 4*. [U\v>+i v(-y/(i It is concluded to have belonged to an individual inhumed at a period prior to a know- 

 ~7 ^ ledge of the working or use of metals in Denmark. The cranium is less expanded at the 



parietal region than in No. 5708, but resembles it in the shape of the forehead, in the pro- 

 minence of the nasal bones, in the broad and produced upper jaw, and in the small depressed 

 orbits. 



Presented by Prof. Eschricht. 



5711. The skull of a native of Lapland. 



The cranium presents a full oval figure, broadest at the parietal region, without any parti- 

 cular prominence except that of the occiput, which is associated with numerous wormian 

 ossicles in the lambdoidal suture. The suture between the ex- and super-occipital is retained 

 on the right side, and partially so on the left. The malar bones are small and slightly pro- 



