226° REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—1912. . 
Tase I. 
Crete Asia Minor | Crete 
ae cmecrimeeriatae xl Sitians Sitians Takhtadji | Selinots | 
in Millimetres Pre) aay I 
| (80 most brachy- m1 33 
| _cephalic)* H f Petersen (quoted H 
Duckworth She by Hawes) PRES : 
I. ah / IIL. IV. 
Head Length . | 178°6 18071 178°8 t 185°3 
Head Breadth . 154°1 153-2 | 153:2 . 157°2 
Cephalic Index. | 86°3 85°1 85:7 : 85:0 
Stature - 1682 1678 1679 | 1701 
* Their names appear to be characteristically Greek ; but Mr. Hawes has pointed 
out the unreliability of this test of ethnic relationship. 
column IV. I have but one criticism to make—viz., that regard must 
be paid to the greater bulk of the latter (the Selinots), in whom the 
head must therefore be somewhat larger. This is seen to be the case, 
while the cephalic index is not very different from those in the 
remaining columns. That the cephalic index should be reduced (as it 
is) is intelligible in consideration of a general law, formulated by 
Johannsen, as to the relation between this index and the stature. 
Apart from this, the conspicuous shortness of the Sitian, and, I 
may add, the ‘ armenoid’ head, led me to consider this feature as 
a possible test for ‘ armenoid’ heads as contrasted with those of 
“illyrian ’ affinities. And, as I have been working out some results 
of my observations on Greeks of the mainland, I may anticipate here 
part of the section of this: Report dealing with the latter. For the 
purpose of a comparison, I pitted the thirty most brachycephalic Sitians 
of Crete (cf. Table I., column I) against the forty most brachycephalic 
of my Greeks. The result is striking, but not satisfactory. For the 
sake of brevity I have presented it in the form of the Table (II.) which 
follows :— 
TABLE II. 
£4 Mean Cephalic Index Mean Head Length Mean Head Breadth 
Sitians (30) ELS idlighsts ihc) 178-6 154°1 . 
Greeks (40) 2°... 875 178-9 156-1 
Head Length Head Length less 
over 182 Head Length 182 than 182 
Sitiansqsipoo Vick G62.120 94 4...134% 20...66:6°% 
Greeks .  :. - 13...32:5% 5...12:5% '  22...55:0 % 
Head Breadth Head Breadth less 
over 155 Head Breadth 155 than 155 
Sitams se Ra Of 3...10% 14...46-7% 
Groeks® 4°? @% se US'22. 255-0 94 6...15% 12...300% 
The result is striking, because, if the figures be accepted as they 
stand, a strong suggestion is provided of an ‘ armenoid ’ as contrasted 
with an “ illyrian’’ element on the mainland. Short heads are found in 
both the groups (Sitians and Greeks) compared. 
But we cannot take the data absolutely without correction, for the 
Greeks were immature. Although of a mean age of about nineteen 
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