THE HUMAN SKULL 131 



Dolichocephalic ... ... ... 58.0 ... 74.9 



Mesocephalic ... ... ... 75.0 ... 79.9 



Brachycephalic ... ... ... 80.0 ... 103.0 



It will thus be seen that the extreme variations 

 permit of the existence of a skull which is nearly 

 twice as long as it is broad (Deniker), and of one 

 which is actually broader than it is long (Ripley). 

 Summing together a few points which have been 

 gleaned from the consideration of facts learnt by 

 means of this index we can, in the first place, state 

 that all the most ancient skulls at present known 

 to us are dolichocephalic. This is a somewhat strik- 

 ing fact, but it is not, as we shall see, correlated 

 with any necessary intellectual inferiority in long- 

 headed races of persons. 



Then, in the next place, we can state that the 

 different varieties of shape are not confined to 

 special parts of the world, but are more or less 

 scattered and intermixed. Huxley, in his pictur- 

 esque and striking manner, stated that the subject 

 of the distribution of head-forms might be summed 

 up in very few words. " Draw," he said, " a line 

 on a globe from the Gold Coast in Western Africa 

 to the steppes of Tartary. At the southern and 

 western end of that line there live the most dolich- 

 ocephalic, prognathous, curly-haired, dark-skinned 

 of men the true Negroes. At the northern and 

 eastern end of the same line there live the most 

 brachycephalic, orthognathous, straight-haired, 

 yellow-skinned of men the Tartars and Cal- 

 mucks. The two ends of this imaginary line are 

 indeed, so to speak, ethnological antipodes. A line 



