IIRDLK'KA] 



PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 



233 



The next records are those by George A. Otis, published in 1876 

 in the Check List of the Specimens in the Section of Anatomy of the 

 United States Army Medical Museum, Washington (pp. 13-15). 

 Aside from those on Greenland crania the author gives here the meas- 

 urements of 3 presumably Eskimo skulls collected by Dall; of 2 

 western Eskimo skulls, no locality ; and of 3 Mahlemut skulls, prob- 

 ably from Norton Sound (St. Michael Island). In his later (1880) 

 catalogue, 83 page 13, Otis adds to the above three skulls from Prince 

 "William Sound, which, however, were more probably Indian; the 

 three Mahlemuts. on the other hand, are given with the Alaskan 

 Indians (p. 35). These data are of but little value. The Eskimo 

 skulls are the same Smithsonian specimens that were reported upon 

 in 1868 by Jeffries Wyman. 



In 1878. Rae * 4 mentions some measurements or observations on 

 the skulls of Western Eskimo by Flower, but no records of these 

 could be located. Rae says: 



I had the privilege of attending the series of admirable lectures so ably 

 given by Professor Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons a few weeks ago 

 on the "Comparative Anatomy of Man," from which I derived much useful 

 information and on one point very considerable food for thought. 



I allude to the wonderful difference in form exhibited between the skulls of 

 the Eskimos from the neighborhood of Bering Strait, and of those inhabiting 

 Greenland, the latter being extremely dolichocephalic, whilst the former are 

 the very opposite — brachiocephalic, the natives of the intermediate coast, from 

 the Coppermine River eastward, having mesocephalic heads. 



" List of the specimens in the Anatomical Section of the Army Medical Museum. 

 Washington. 1880. 



M Rae, John, Eskimo skulls. J. Anthrop. Inst. Gr. Brit., London, 1878, vn, 142. 



88253°— 30 16 



