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the joint labours of its gifted authors had been crowned with their 

 own final summary and deductions. But being in some degree 

 compelled to notice it, by what appears to me an appropriation of my 

 views on one of the points in question, after pronouncing so summary 

 a judgment on others, I may here indicate the apparent bearings of 

 the evidence at the present stage. Deducting from the crania already 

 described and illustrated in the four published decades, those classed 

 as Koman, Anglo-Saxon, and Scandinavian, the remainder admit of 

 division into two distinct classes ; 1st, those derived from Chambered 

 Barrows and Cromlechs or Megalithic cists ; 2nd, those found in 

 ordinary barrows and cists. The following tables exhibit the results 

 of such a classification. The first includes every skull of its class of 

 which the measurements are given in the first four Decades, with 

 the exception of the very imperfect cranium of a female child (C) 

 from Long Low : and also embraces those of West Kennet chambered 

 barrow, supplied to me by Dr. Thurnam, but which have probably 

 been published before this appears, in Decade V. of the same work. 

 The second table includes every skull from a British barrow or cist, 

 in the same four Decades, with the exception of two, plates 25 and 34, 

 both of which are so imperfect as not to supply the requisite measure- 

 ments. Of the former, from Kinaldie, Aberdeenshire, Mr. Davis says, 

 " This cranium, derived from the country of the Picts, may proba- 

 bly have belonged to one of that people." Its unusually short longi- 

 tudinal diameter, 6.8, would have increased the difference apparent 

 between the two classes of skulls ; and the same may also be said of 

 the Wetton Hill skull, a " remarkably elevated acrocephalic skull,"^ 

 with partial parieto-occipital flattening ; but the longitudinal diameter 

 is not included among the measurements given. From the illustra- 

 tion, however, it appears to measure 7.0 in length ; so that both are 

 below the average of the brachycephalic crania in the table, and would 

 therefore increase the characteristic differences. The results of the 

 comparison of such unexceptionable data, it will be seen, are no mere 

 averages of miscellaneous crania. The measurements are : \. Longi- 

 tudinal Diameter; 2. Frontal breadth; 3. Parietal breadth; 4. 

 Occipital breadth; 5. Pai'ietal height; 6. Intermastoid arch; 7- 

 Hoi'izontal circumference. They supply the tests of length, breadth, 

 height, and circumference, along with the relative frontal, parietal, and 

 occupital breadth ; and show a general uniformity distinguishing each 

 class. This is still more apparent from the drawings ; for measure- 



