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becomes apparent tliat skulls miicli exceeding the average, and some 

 of remarkable internal capacity, are met with among barbarian races, 

 and even among some of the lowest savages. Taking the crania 

 in the elaborate series of tables in Dr. J. B. Davis's "Thesaurus 

 Craniorum," with an internal capacity above 100 cubic inches, they 

 will rank in order as follows : 



Chinese Ill '8 



Maduran 110.6 



Marquesan , 110.6 



Kanaka 108-8 



Javan 107' 



Negro 105-8 



Australian 104-5 



Kafir 104-5 



Bakele 103-3 



Tidorese.. 103-3 



Bhotia 102-7 



Bodo 100-9 



Hindoo .^ 100-9 



Sumatran 100-9 



Among the European series the largest is an Irish cranium of 

 121-6 cubic in., and next to it comes an Italian, 114*3, and an 

 Englishman, 112-4; an ancient Briton from a Yorkshire Long Bar- 

 row, 109-4: an ancient Roman, 106-4; a Lapp, 105-8; an ancient 

 Gaul, 103-7; a Briton of Roman times, 103-3; a Merovingian 

 Frank, 101-5; and an Anglo-Saxon, 100*9. Those and other ex- 

 amples of the like kind are full of interest as showing the recurrence 

 of megalocephalic variations from the common cranial and cerebral 

 standard among ancient races; and among rudest savages as well 

 as among the most cultivated classes of modern civilized nations. 

 But the order shown in the above instances is derived from purely 

 exceptional examples, and is no key to the relative capacity of the 

 races named. 



Opportunities for testing the size and weight of the brain among 

 barbarous races are only rarely accessible to those who are qualified 

 to avail themselves of them for the purposes of science. Some near 

 approximation to the relative brain-weight of the English, Scotch, 

 German, and French, may now be assumed to have been established. 

 Dr. Thurnam instituted a comparison between those and two of the 

 prehistoric races of Britain — the Dolichocephali of the Long Barrows, 



