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" Since this portion of the Essay (?'. e. his, English and their Origin) 

 was written," the above named paper has appeared in the Anthropolog- 

 ical Review. " It fully confirms all that has been above stated with 

 respect to the difference between English and German heads." Mr. 

 Pike's reference is equally candid and courteous; and we should not 

 have thought of pointing out that the confirmation of opinions already 

 published in 1864, must be ascribed to him, not to us, were it not for 

 such absolute claims to novelty and originality, incident, perhaps, to the 

 necessities of a Chancery suit. But our first appeal to the special test 

 referred to is of much earlier date, and then explicitly refers to the 

 very point in question, viz., the contrast between the short German and 

 long British head. For example, in treating of ''Ethnical forms and 

 undesigned artificial distortions of the Human Cranium,'' (Can. Juur., 

 Vol. VII., p. 414, Sept., 1862), it is remarked: "My attention was 

 originally directed to this familiar test [viz., hat manufacturers' shapes] 

 by a remark of the late Dr. Kombst, that he had never been able to 

 obtain an English-made hat that would fit his head. He added that 

 he believed such was the general experience of Germans, owing to the 

 greater length of the English head. I subsequently found the shapes 

 of a Yorkshire hatter to be shorter than some furnished me from Dub- 

 lin ; and I believe that such comparisons of the shapes most in demand 

 in different parts of the British Islands and on the Continent, will 

 supply important craniological results. Dr. Nott has employed the same 

 means in his * Comparative Anatomy of Races/ but only as a test of 

 relative horizontal circumference." 



Again, in the later paper of 1864, this occurs : " One extensive hat 

 manufacturer in Edinburgh states that the Scottish head is decidedly 

 longer, but not so high as the English. In comparison with it the 

 German head appears almost round." 



When Mr. C. Carter Blake set forth in evidence, as one of Mr. Owen 

 Pike's contributions to ethnology, the deduction that " The English are 

 descendants of the ancient Britons," it is to be presumed that he 

 meant no more than Mr. Pike himself repeatedly indicates, namely, the 

 predominance of the British as compared with the Anglo-Saxon ele- 

 ment. He remarks, for example, (^English and (heir Origin, p. 46), 

 " We know from the laws of Ine, that there was a British population 

 dwelling among the Saxons, and that its position was not very inferior 

 to the position of the Saxons themselves. But in addition to these 

 Saxonised British landowners, there must have been a considerable 



