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that bis own cerebral capacity, when ganged by this simple process, fell 

 considerably short of that of the Ayrshire bard. When, however? 

 dates are thus specifically assigned to our first publication, we may be 

 pardoned correcting them. 



The paper referred to in the evidence above quoted, is the " Inquiry 

 into the physical characteristics of the ancient and modern Celt," 

 which appeared in the November number of the Cayiadian Journal 

 for 1864. It was forwarded, as usual, to the Anthropological and 

 other Scientific Societies of London and elsewhere; in addition to au- 

 thor's copies posted to English correspondents and friends: and in 

 this way was transferred to the pages of the Anthropological Review. 

 I might refer to earlier dates at which the subject was brought before 

 the Canadian Institute ; but it is sufficient that my views on this subject 

 were published in 186-1, and soon after attracted notice both in London 

 and Paris; and among those are ideas of more importance in their 

 bearing on the general question than the one referred to in Mr. Owen 

 Pike's note. 



The Honorary Secretary of the Anthropological Society, Mr. C. 

 Carter Blake, when questioned by the defendant's counsel, made this 

 reply: " He believed the fact that the modern English possess long 

 skulls was first established by the plaintiff, (Mr. Luke Owen Pike), 

 and that he had first combined the propositions that the Celtic skull 

 ■was long, that the Teutonic skull was short, that the modern English 

 skull is long, and that therefore, the English are descendants of the 

 ancient Britons. That was perfectly new." 



Now we venture to question whether that was perfectly new.- Mr- 

 Pike says, in answer to the defendant's counsel : " He believed his 

 argument concerning the skull-form of the English, in relation with 

 the skull-forms of the ancient and modern Teutons, and of the ancient 

 and modern Celts, to be original. He had arrived at it by a long pro- 

 cess of sifting evidence which was very contradictory." But we had 

 arrived at results, in many respects similar, after sifting much conflict- 

 ing evidence : as set forth in the "Inquiry into the physical character- 

 istics of the ancient and modern Celt," published in this journal .in 

 1861, whereas Mr. Pike's " English and their Origin" did not appear 

 till 1866. We cannot, indeed, do better than quote Mr. Pike himself 

 in proof of this. In discussing the relative proportions of the average 

 German and English head, he refers to the uniform experience of the 

 hat manufacturer; and then adds, in the note already referred to: 



