678 GENERAL REMARKS 



skulls not figured in this book with the average obtained from six 

 other brachy-cephalic skulls taken from Swiss, English, and Tamil 

 series. These figures may be taken as being strongly confirmatory 

 of the other evidence for the inferiority of the Silurian dolicho- 

 cephalic to the Cimbric brachy-cephalic race which is furnished by 

 several other physical peculiarities (see p. 641 seq^ci. supra and p. 680 

 infra), as well as by the historical or rather prehistorical fact of its 

 having been conquered and in some parts of this country displaced 

 and replaced by the later stock. 



To obtain, however, a complete idea of the characteristics of a 

 people, it is necessary not only to know what their stature and what 

 the proportions of their skull measurements may have been, both 

 in themselves and in relation to the brain-segments they covered j 

 but to be able to reproduce to our view their complexion and the 

 colour of their eyes. These latter points indeed, of which the barrows 

 can tell us nothing, are to the ordinary traveller an enquiry at least 

 as interesting as even the stature, and though it is possible to 

 overrate their value and importance to the ethnologist, at all events 

 when he is dealing with races as capable of complete fusion as 

 those whose remains we are here concerned with, they still possess, 

 even for him, an interest which is little inferior to that of the less 

 perishable remains. 



In Europe at the present day we have the following combina- 

 tions of complexion and stature and cranial indices. We have, 

 firstly, in certain parts of Great Britain and of Germany light hair 

 and complexion combined with considerable stature and with 

 dolicho-cephaly, so as to preserve for us what excavations, combined 

 with measurements and with traditions, justify us very entirely 

 in speaking of as the Teutonic or Germanic tj^pe^. Secondly, 

 we have the same hair, complexion, and stature combined 

 with brachy-cephaly in the Finns 2, in the Danes ^, in some 

 Sclavs, and in many of not the least vigorous of our own country- 

 men. Thirdly, hair, complexion, and stature, all alike of just the 

 opposite character, may be found combined with brachy-cephaly 

 in South Germany, and in some other parts of the Continent, as, 



' See Holder, Arehiv f iir Anthrop. ii. p. 51 ; v. p. 538 ; Zusammenstelluug der 

 in Wui-ttemberg vorkommenden Scbadelformen, 1876, p. 6 ; and Cleland, Phil. Trans. 

 1870, p. 148. 



^ Virehow, Beitrage zur physischen Anthropologie des Deutschen 1876, pp. 9, 10; 

 Zeitschrif t f iir Ethnologie, iv. 380, v. 320 ; Ai-chiv fur Antliropologie, iii. 553-555, 

 iv. 78. 



3 Dr. Beddoe, Mem. Soc. Auth. Lond. vol. iii. p. 382. 



