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are found assigned to Europe, to facilitate the common 

 treatment of the whole Caucasus which is adopted in the 

 text. These data I have transcribed in my tahles, and I 

 have indicated them by the letter _D, omitting the names 

 of the individual authors anterior to Deniker and - utilised 

 by him. It is only necessary to call attention to the fact 

 that the 332 Curds whose cephalic index Deniker gives 

 on p. 669 as 78*5, and who certainly are the same as 

 those of Chantre, are not all $ but 62 9. 1 



I have found Ivanovsky's tables extremely accurate 

 and I have transcribed by far the larger number of the 

 data from them, indicating them by Iv., 2 thus omitting 

 the authors utilised by him whose names can be verified 

 from his tables : from these also I have drawn almost 

 all the percentages which are seen in my tables, accord- 

 ing to the subdivisions of Ivanovsky. I have omitted 

 nearly all the series containing less than 10 individuals 

 which are very numerous, although not entirely useless. 



A fact to be taken into consideration is the arrange- 

 ment of the material. This has been done by Deniker 

 and by Martin in the simplest way, distributing, that is 

 to say, the material into just as many sections as there 

 are parts of the globe ; to this Ivanovsky had added 

 Russia, taking out the Russian territory from Asia and 

 from Europe. This innovation, if it shows up the enor- 

 mous anthropometric work accomplished by Russian 

 anthropologists which can be cited to the honour of a 

 generation now gone out, is not, however, an innovation 



1 CHANTRE (E.), Recherches anthropologiques dans 1'Asie occidentale. Arch, du 

 Museum d'Hist. Nat. de Lyon, T. IV, Lyon, 1895, p. 102. Besides,' thia ind. is to be 

 taken with great caution, in as much aa Chantre asserta (Ibid. p. 113) that almost 

 all the Curds have deformed cranium, the ^ a little less. 



2 Indirectly I have also made use of the older work of IVANOVSKY (A. A.), 

 Ob antropologhicesckim sostavje naselenija Rossij. Moscow, 1904 (unfortunately 

 under the present conditions I have not been able to procure a copy). 



