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further, they are such as to enable us to refer these skulls and skeletons to the 

 race living in the Age of the Reindeer, properly so called, and made known to us 

 by the discoveries of M. Dupont in Belgium, M. Brunn at Montauban, and 

 particularly M. de Ferry in the Maconnais. 



I have shown elsewhere that all the crania of the Reindeer Age, which I 

 have provisionally termed " Mongoloid," constitute a double series, of which one 

 approaches the Lap and the other the Fin of our day. 



Now, as we may prove by the foregoing descriptions and by the Plates C. I.-V., 

 the Perigordian skulls belong evidently by their cranial and facial architecture 

 to the category of the Mongoloid group. At the same time, they are far from 

 being Laps ; and they depart even in some particulars from the type of the Fin 

 in the strict sense. Thus, the cranium of the Lap is decidedly brachycephalic 

 and generally not voluminous : that of the Fin (Suomi) is ordinarily also brachy- 

 cephalic, as we learn from Dr. J. B. Davis's ' Catalogue ' and from the specimens 

 in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris; or it is in any case very 

 slightly dolichocephalic when it departs from the rule, as we may presume from 

 the average of the indicial number given by Retzius, which is 808. Consequently, 

 though Mongoloid, these Perigordian skulls, remarkable for their volume and 

 length, present incontestably something new to us, as compared with all those 

 of the Age of the Reindeer which as yet we have been able to study. Indeed, 

 if the cranium from Rosette, found by M. Dupont, is sufficiently voluminous 

 (560 millims. in circumference) to serve in this respect as a term of* comparison, 

 it is on the other hand eminently brachycephalic. Then, the male Finnish skull 

 from Bruniquel and the female from Solutre", both belonging to the Reindeer 

 Age, are certainly less dolichocephalic than these skulls from Perigord ; and they 

 present, too, at least some shades of difference in the conformation of the orbits, 

 the nose, and the maxillaries. Nevertheless in considering the Perigordian 

 crania, such as they are, as dolichocephalic, as we see by the Table of Measure- 

 ments (page 90), we are far from being able to establish the degree of this 

 dolichocephalism ; for the three calvaria are partly abnormal and partly defective. 

 The most complete of them, namely No. 1 (page 75), is affected with premature 

 synostosis. The second presents both an abnormal conformation of the occiput 

 (increasing its longitudinal diameter), and a posthumous transverse distension. 

 Lastly, the third, female, wants almost all the left parietal. Consequently it is 

 impossible to define, with sufficient accuracy for the determination of race- 

 character, the dolichocephalism of these individuals. But if these skulls are 

 Mongoloid, but neither Finnish nor Lappish, to what type do they approach ? 



