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(but not in all) parts of Continental Europe, again, the epithet 

 Mong-headed' would not have the laudatory connotation which, 

 thanks to our Saxon blood, and in spite of the existence amongst 

 us of other varieties of dolichocephaly, it still retains here. And 

 the brachycephalic head which, abroad^ at least, is ordinarily a 

 more capacious one, and carried on more vigorous shoulders and 

 by more vigorous owners altogether than the dolichocephalic, 

 strikes a man who has been used to live amongst dolichocephali 

 by nothing more forcibly, when he first comes to take notice of it, 

 than by the nearness of the external ear to the back of the head ; 

 and this may be said to constitute an artistic occipital brachy- 

 cephalism. But this does not imply that the converse condition 

 is to be found conversely correlated, nor does it justify the use of 

 the phrase 'occipital dolichocephaly' in any etymological, nor even 

 in any ethnographical sense. 



I shall now content myself, as far as craniology is concerned, by 

 an enumeration of some at least of the various recent memoirs upon 

 the subject which appear to me to be of pre-eminent value. And 

 foremost amongst these I will mention Professor Cleland's long and 

 elaborate scientific and artistic paper on the Variations of the 

 Human Skull, which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions 

 for 1869. Next I will name Ecker's admirable, though shorter, 

 memoir on Cranial Curvature, which appeared in the ' Archiv fiir 

 Anthropologic,' a journal already owing much to his labours, in 

 the year 1871. Aeby's writings I have already referred to, and 

 Ihering's, to be found in recent numbers of the ' Archiv fiir An- 

 thropologic ' and the ' Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic,^ deserve your 

 notice. Professor Bischoff s paper on the Mutual Relations of the 

 horizontal circumference of the Skull and of its contents to 

 each other and to the weight of the Brain, has not, as I think, 

 obtained the notice which it deserves. It is to be found in the 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Munich for 1864, the same 

 year which witnessed the publication of the now constantly quoted 

 ' Crania Helvetica ' of Professors His and Riitimeyer. Some of 

 the most important results contained in this work, and much im- 

 portant matter besides, were made available to the exclusively 



' See upon this point: — Broca, 'Bull. Soc. Anth.' Paris, ii. p. 648, 1861 ; ihid. 

 Dec. 5, 1872 ; Virchovv, 'Archiv fur Anth.' v. p. 535 ; ' Zeitschrift fiir Ethnol.' iv. 2, 

 p. 36; 'Sammlungen,'ix. 193, p. 45, 1874; Beddoe, 'Mem. Anth. Soc. Lond.'ii. p. 350. 



