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and English. In all, out of nearly a hundred head-forms marked witn 

 French names, only nine were not of the short, nearly round form j and 

 no sisigle example of this short type occurred in one hundred and forty- 

 seven head-forms bearing English names. A more recent examination 

 of patterns from Montreal led to a very different result. There, 

 where owt of the firct fifty English head-forms I examined, cne ex- 

 ample of the short globular type occurred ; out of seventy French 

 head-fonns (dasatfied by names,) only eleven presented the most preva- 

 lent French head-type of Quebec. But the French head of th« Mon- 

 treal dietriet, though long, is not the same as the English type. It is 

 shorter, a«d wtder at the parietal protuberances ; and with a greater 

 comparative frontal breadth, than what appears tc be the Celtic sub- 

 type of the EaglJeh head : though also including some kng heads of 

 the latter form. So far, therefore, it would seem a legitimate inference 

 from die evidence, that the brachycephalic and nearly globular head 

 of the Quebe* district is the Franco-Norman type ; while the longer 

 French head of the Montreal district is that of Brittany, where the 

 Celtic elem^^jjt predominates. 



But agais?., amid considerable diversity in minute characteristics, the 

 English he.Wg appear to be divisible into two classes, of vyhich one, 

 charac!>erised by great length, and slight excess of hreadth in the 

 parietal a§ CGm{>ared with the frontal region, appears to be the Anglo- 

 Saxoo head ; feh« other, also long, but marked by a suddea tapering in 

 front ©f th# parietal protuberances, and a narrow prolouged frontal, re- 

 gion, \6 tije iasukr Celtic type. These inferences 1 deduce from the fol- 

 lowing «i«'ifa. A certain number of the head-forms, marked by the ex- 

 treme chafact^rietifis of great length and nearly uniform breadth, all 

 bear true Ewg'.ish or Saxon names, e. g. ; Anderson, Bell, Booth, 

 Brown, Beard, Blackie, Cosford, Chapman, Dean, Forster, Fisher, 

 Guest,_ (li5es, Mason, Steel, Sanderson, Thompson, Westby, Waddel, 

 &c. Out of upwards of four hundred heads more or less nearly 

 appr<v'^iimatcKg to thJB type, only two presented the exceptional names : 

 0'<nallH^-h.'6T.ii esid Donovan. The form which I distinguish from this 

 as the il'iTrsh Celtic type, is equally long, but otherwise vepy different, 

 appro«i'h»i!g to what may be most fitly designated the pear-shape. 

 Of fcitia I have found Fepresentatives of all the insular sui)i!l: visions of 

 the Celtic racd, e. §. : Campbell, Eraser, Grant, McLean, I^irKcozie, 

 MeDonalcS, McMillan, McLeay, McKay, McLennan McGregor, 

 Stuart, &c. ; Beavtn, Davis, S^ans, Flynn, Hughes, Jones, Owen, 



