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different contours which we are familiar with from Saxon graves 

 throughout England, and from the so-called 'Danes' graves' of 

 Yorkshire. Whatever might be the result of such a discovery and 

 such a comparison, I think it would in neither event justify the 

 application of the term ' Kymric' to the particular form of skull to 

 which Retzius and Broca have assigned it. 



Some years ago I noticed the absence of the brachy cephalic 

 British type of skull from an extensive series of Romano-British 

 gkulls which had come into my hands ; and subsequently to my 

 doiug this, Canon Green well pointed out to me that such skulls 

 as we had from late Keltic cemeteries, belonging to the com- 

 paratively short period which elapsed between the end of the 

 Bronze Period and the establishment of Roman rule in Great 

 Britain, seemed to have reverted mostly to the prae-Bronze dolicho- 

 cephalic type. This latter type, the ' kumbecephalic type' of 

 Professor Daniel Wilson, manifests a singular vitality, as the late 

 and much lamented Professor Phillips pointed out long ago at a 

 Meeting of this Association held at Swansea— the dark-haired 

 variety, which is very ordinarily the longer-headed and the shorter- 

 statured variety of our countrymen, being represented in very great 

 abundance in those regions of England which can be shown, by 

 irrefragable and multifold evidence, to have been most thoroughly 

 permeated, imbibed, and metamorphosed by the infusion of Saxons 

 and Danes, in the districts, to wit, of Derby, Leicester, Stamford, 

 and Loughborough. How, and in what way, this type of man- 

 one to which some of the most valuable men now bearmg the name 

 of Englishmen, which they once abhorred, belong-has contrived to 

 reassert itself, we may, if I am rightly informed, hear some dis- 

 cussion in this department. Before leaving this part of my subject 

 I would say that the Danish type of head still survives amongst 

 us; but it is to my thinking not by any means so common, at 

 least in the Midland counties, as the dark-haired type of which we 

 have just been speaking. And I would add that hope I may 

 find that the views which I have here hinted at wil be found to 

 be in accord with the extensive researches of Dr. f edd<>e, a ge t e- 



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