TO RELATIVE CAPACITY OP RACES. 



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sequently publislied, including results deduced from Dr. J. B. Davis's 

 minute reports of ids ovni extensive collections, and taking Tiede- 

 mann's capacity of 92*3 for the European skull as 100. 



TABLE II. 



RATIO OP CUBICAL CAPACITY OF SKULLS OF DIFFERENT RACES. 



The tables of Dr. Morton and Dr. Davis furnish materials for 

 drawing comparisons between diverse nations of the great European 

 family ; but though they are of value as contributions to the required 

 means for ethnical comparison, they fall far short of determining the 

 average cranial capacity of the different nationalities. "Whilst, for 

 example, the tabular data in the "Thesaurus Craniorum" show a mean 

 internal capacity of 94 cub. in. for the combined Teutonic family, the 

 Finns yield the higher mean capacity of 96-3 cub. in. Again, Dr. 

 Thurnam found that the results of the weighing of fifty-nine brains 

 of patients at the Friends' Retreat near York, mostly persons of the 

 middle class of society, yielded weights considerably above those 

 which he subsequently obtained from testing those of pauper patients 

 in Wilts and Somerset. But this has to be estimated alons; with 



