IN THE PETER REDPATH MUSEUM OP MCGILL UNIVERSITY^ ETC*. 257 



In conclusion, the points referred to in this paper may be 

 sufficient at least to excuse geologists and archa3ologists on 

 the Weslern side of the Atlantic for interesting them- 

 selves in the extinct people of the Canaries. 



JVOTT? ON GUANCEE SKULLS IN THE PEABODY 

 MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE, U.S. 



Professor Putnam, the director of the above-named museum, 

 has kindly communicated to me the measurements of two Guanche 

 skulls in his collection, which wei'e measured for him by the late 

 Miss Studley, one of his assistants. 



Of one of these (No. 122) the length is 183 centimetres, or 

 ■exactly the average of oar ten Tetierift'e skulls, but the maximum 

 breadth is only 13'3, which is near to that of the narrowest of our 

 male skulls. The other (presented by Miss Dabney, and said to 

 be from an ancient cemetery in the island of Gran Canaria) is in 

 length 19"0, which is the same with our largest Teneriife skull, 

 but its breadth is 148, which is greater by "4 than that of any 

 ■of our Teneriffe skulls. It is larger in both dimensions than our 

 skull from Gran Canaria, but is somewhat less dolichocephalic. 



Along with these Miss Studley has tabulated the average of 25 

 ■crania of New England Indians, which amounts to 18'6 in length 

 and 1.3"5 in breadth ; of 14 Florida skulls with 19"1 in length and 

 13'5 in breadth ; and 9 Coahuilan (Mexican) with length of 18'3 

 and breadth of 13'4, which comes very near to the average of the 

 Teneriffe skulls. These measurements tend to confirm the con- 



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