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which he describes as equally long with the Anglo- Saxon^ but 

 marked by a sudden tapering in front of the parietal pro- 

 tuberauceSj and a narrow prolonged frontal region. Most of 

 the other eminent anthropologists whose names 1 have cited^ 

 from Retzius onwards, have more or less clearly, and with 

 some difference of opinion on the point of length, indicated a 

 somewhat similar view; but none of them, so far as I can 

 recollect, have so clearly and tersely expressed it. I myself, 

 working independently of Dr. Wilson, and in a different 

 manner, had educed the same conclusions, which have since 

 been confirmed by further investigations, including a few 

 upon Swedish, German, and Walloon heads ; and, moreover, 

 by a visit to Rheims, in Champagne, where, in the elaborate 

 sculptures of the monument of Jovinus, I had the satisfaction 

 of beholding the same marked features, square forehead, 

 prominent brows, and angular chin, which almost equally, to 

 the present day, characterise the Belgic Kelt of the continent 

 and the Firbolgian of Arran. 



I do not think Wilson's term, " pear-shaped," very happy ; 

 that of " coffin-shaped" would perhaps be better, but would 

 be liable to convey the idea of great length, which is not 

 desirable. The heads to which I should apply it vary in 

 length, but are usually rather dolichous. A nearly straight 

 line extends from the outer angle of the forehead to the point 

 of greatest breadth, which is generally parietal, and placed 

 far back above and behind the meatus auditorius ; while in 

 Saxon skulls this point is generally temporal, and placed 

 above the meatus, at a rather low level. The forehead has 

 great squareness when viewed from above, and from behind 

 diagonally its angle and the malar bone are both seen to be 

 prominent, so that the eye can hardly be got to show in 

 profile : the zygomatic diameter may or may not be large, but it 

 is placed well forward, and oj^pears large in a front view ; and 

 this fact, with the flatness of the anterior and fronto-lateral 

 region, would cause the skull to be phgenozygous. In the 

 Saxon type, on the other hand, with which the Swedish 

 generally but not exactly agrees, the forehead is rounded 

 laterally, the eye prominent in profile, the greatest zygomatic 



