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drawn at right angles, or nearly so, to this polar 

 line through Europe and Southern Asia to Hin- 

 dustan would give us a sort of equator, around 

 which round-headed, oval-headed, and oblong- 

 headed, prognathous and orthognathous, fair and 

 dark races but none possessing the excessively 

 marked characters of Calmuck or Negro group 

 themselves." This striking generalisation must 

 nowadays be corrected by rather more accurate 

 figures, based on more extended observations. 

 The general position may be summed up in two 

 quotations from Deniker. " There is," he writes, 

 " a certain regularity in the distribution of the 

 different cranial forms on the surface of the earth. 

 Dolichocephaly is almost exclusively located in 

 Melanesia, in Australia, in India, and in Africa. 

 Sub-dolichocephaly, diffused in the two extreme 

 regions north and south of Europe, forms in Asia 

 a zone round India (Indo-China, Anterior Asia, 

 China, Japan, etc.), but is met with only sporadi- 

 cally in other parts of the world, especially in 

 America. Mesocephaly is frequent in Europe in 

 the regions bordering on the sub-dolichocephalic 

 countries, as well as in different parts of Asia and 

 America. Sub-brachycephaly, much diffused 

 among the Mongolians of Asia and the popula- 

 tions of Eastern Europe, is very rare elsewhere. 

 Lastly, brachycephalic and hyper-brachycephalic 

 heads are almost exclusively limited to Western 

 and Central Europe, to some populations of Asia, 

 Turko-Mongols, Irano-Semites, and Thai-Malays. 

 And again, excluding the sub-classes, the nature 

 of which will be readily understood without any 



