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series, that is to say, the lowest average, is 71 '3. The 

 aboriginal skull did not show any morphological differ- 

 ences between those who should become white and those 

 who should acquire the yellowish tint. 



Let us here briefly note that craniological studies when 

 made without preconception lead to the same results. 

 Thus Reicher came to the conclusion that the cerebral 

 skull shows a great similarity between Alpine brachy- 

 cephals and Mongolian brachycephals, whilst their facial 

 skull shows great differences. 1 He adds that from his 

 inquiries he does not find that the facial skeleton is to be 

 held more variable than the cerebral skeleton ; thus one 

 may believe that the acquisition of brachycephalism took 

 place in the two races (whether they are varieties or 

 species) in an independent way from either similar or 

 diverse influences, which had the same result. In fact 

 it would be more difficult to explain why, having aborigi- 

 nally the same brachy cephalic shape of cerebral skull 

 which is after all only an envelope ! there have taken 

 place so many skeletal (facial), tegumentary and other 

 differences. But we must here limit ourselves to the 

 anthropometric characters, to which we must return. 



If we take into consideration the unclassified ethnic 

 groups, which are added to the various tables, we find it 

 confirmed from Tables I and TV that stature has as its lower 

 limit a figure which is much less (1583) in the Xantho- 

 derms than in the Leucoclerms (1624) and that it reaches 

 the same higher limit (1700) in both. From Tables II 

 and V we find that the unclassified Xanthoderms are 

 arranged by the ceph, ind. half among the mesaticephals 

 and half among the brachycephals, and almost the same 

 thing is met with among the Leucoderms. Lastly, in 



1 REICHEE (M.), Untersuchungen tiler die Sch&delform der alpenlandischen und 

 mongolischer Brachycephaleii. 11. Vergleich der alpenlundischer brachycephalen 

 ScKadcl mit den mongoloid-en. " Zeitfcci-.r- f. Morpli. n. Anthrop.," Bd. XVI, p. 64 



