1896.] 



Mr Shrubsall, Crania from Teneriffe. 



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The wide range covered by the indices, viz. 13 units both in 

 male and female skulls is sufficient to indicate a mixture of races, 

 while the foregoing table shews that comparative uniformity 

 must have existed at the time of the Spanish conquest of the 

 Canaries. 



With regard to height, the skulls in the main are low rather 

 than high, the mean altitudinal index for males from Teneriffe 

 being 705, and for females 722, as against male 72 - 5, and female 

 71*9 for the whole archipelago. Contrasting with other series, 

 we have for males, 



Guanches, 70 , 5, 



Cromagnon, No. 1, 65*3, 



Solute, No. 5, 70-7, 



Caverne de L'Homme Mort, 68-8, 

 Spanish Basques, 70*7, 



Modern Teneriffan, 73'5 ; 



and for females, 



Guanches, 72*2, 



Grenelle, No. 2, 72, 

 Solutre, No. 2, 74'6, 



again shewing the close resemblance to the Cromagnon race of 

 the former inhabitants of the archipelago. The division into 

 classes by the altitudinal index is as follows : 



Contrasting breadth and height, the mean index for male 

 Teneriffan skulls is 92*9, and for females 921. Compare 



Cromagnon, 88'6, 



Solutre', No. 5, 937, 



Caverne de L'Homme Mort, 96'4, 

 Spanish Basques, 924. 



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