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tribes that took part in the conquest of England^* and thirty- 

 Swedes, partly for a similar reason, and partly to show that the 

 Swedes are not so universally and intensely dolichokephalous 

 as most people seem to believe. Also ten Walloons from the 

 province of Namur, as representatives of a race more or less 

 Keltic in blood, and eight Finns as an example of a truly 

 brachykephalous people. 



The conclusions or inferences I should draw from this table 

 would be as follows : — 



That, inasmuch as there is reason to suppose that the com- 

 parative breadth of a cranium, is less than that of a living head, 

 with its integuments, etc., there is ground for believing the 

 people of the West of England to be decidedly dolichokephalic. 

 That the same statement applies to South Wales, and to 

 Munster. 



That the difference in this respect between Anglo-Saxons in 

 general, and Kelts in general, is immaterial, and that if any 

 such difference does exist, it is quite overshadowed by the tribal 

 or sectional differences, between Saxons and Kelts mter se. 



That the table affords no support to the view that the Keltic 

 skull has been, or would be narrowed by an admixture of the 

 Iberian type. For there is more reason to suspect the pre- 

 sence of Iberian blood in Cornwall and South Wales, than in 

 West Somerset, and more in Kerry than in Cork. 



That if the modern Gaehc skull differs from the Kymric or 

 Cambro-British in this respect, it is probably in the direction of 

 greater narrowness. 



That the heads in North-western Wiltshire are remarkably 

 long. Lest this should be attributed wholly to the fact that 

 Wilts is more Teutonic than any county to the west of it, I 

 will remark that the twenty heads from the other Teutonic 

 districts of England occupy the other extremity of my scale, 

 and, moreover, that my Wiltshire list includes some specimens 

 whose other physical characteristics are distinctly Keltic, and 



* I have liad no oxjportunity of measuring Frisian heads; judging by the 

 eye, I believe Dr. Lubach's opinion of the dolichocophaly of the Frisians to 

 be correct. Nor have I measured any Danes. 



