704 EBPOET 1881. 



Sussex, as seen in the ranks of the militia. It is also found in the remoter parts 

 of Surrey, and in other so-called Saxon counties. The same type prevails in the 

 country districts in Sweden, and is not uncommon in some parts of France. 



Now, the Danish profile (pure) presents a striking contrast to the above 

 type; though the skull is of the same, or nearly the same, width, and the 

 hair and eyes equally light. The forehead exhibits an apparent depression, 

 due to the prominence of the brow-ridges, which are more or less continuous. 

 The eye consequently has the appearance of being sunk. The nasal bone 

 rises well above an imaginary line drawn from the root to the tip of the 

 nose, and is often high. These features are found in a great majority of 

 the skulls preserved in the Nordisch Museum, and also in the tine collection of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons at Copenhagen, both obtained from early Danish 

 tumuli. Many persons in the streets of Copenhagen present these cranial cha- 

 racteristics : and they are found still more frequently in country places. In 

 addition to this, there "appears to be an equally well-marked contrast in the ear of 

 those Danes whose profiles approach most nearly to the early type. It consists, 

 amono-st other points, in a continuation of the channel or fossa (which exists in 

 all ears between the helix and the antihelix) quite up to the cheek. There is 

 consequently no proper lobe, though many Danes, through mixture with Swedes 

 and Germans, have, like the majority of English, a composite or uncertain kind 

 of lobe. The lips are thin. 



The same characteristics are recognisable in the inhabitants of Schleswig and 

 Holstein, where one frequently meets with the Danish termination sen. They 

 are met with also, though not so strongly marked (except in a few cases), in 

 Beloium, where the patronj-mic is abbreviated, as in AVales and many parts of 

 England. 



The type is found in various districts in the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is 

 spread over so large an area that, for this and other reasons, the opinion that is 

 now received by the most eminent anthropologists in Paris and in this country 



that the Belg?e and the Cymri were Celtic tribes, — requires the supplement 



(which M. Hovelacque considers perfectly scientific) — that the Danes were a 

 tribe of the Cymri. Certainly it is time to put aside the view that the Celtic 

 race is dark. It is not so in Ireland, Scotland, or France, except where there is 

 a strong infusion of Iberian blood, which would not have altered the profile. 

 In the Principality the Cymric type still exists in comparative purity, and is fair. 



Danish skulls" in the "possession of Dr. Eraser at Dublin, obtained by himself 

 from a battle-field in the neighbom-hood of that city, exhibit precisely the same 

 peculiarities as the crania in the museums at Copenhagen. Two skulls, presented 

 By Professor B. Dawkins to the Welshpool Museum, and labelled ' Danish,' are in 

 every respect similar. Also several dredged up from the bed of the Ouse, in the 

 museum at York, exhibit the same characteristics. Others, found in the hollowed 

 trunks of trees, and supposed to be Anglian, present the same ci-auial features, 

 thouo-h in a modified degree. In the Scarborough Museum there is a skeleton 

 from a neighbouring barrow that might be considered Danish were it not that the 

 objects associated with it point to a British intei-ment. 



Now the majority of skulls collected by Canon Greenwell from the round 

 barrows of Yorkshire, so closely resemble early Danish crania that he has ai-rived, 

 quite independently, at the conclusion that the fair-haired Briton and the early 

 Dane were allied in blood. In other words, that the Danes proper were in race a 

 Celtic, and not a Teutonic people. 



11. On a remarl-able Human Skull found near York. 

 By Edward Allen, F.0.8. 



This skull which was exhibited, was found some years ago in the neighbour- 

 hood of York. It is very much elongated, and compressed at the sides. The 

 sagittal suture is entirely obliterated, and its place supplied by an elevated ridge 

 of dense bone. The bones of the skull are very thick and heavy. The author thinks it 



