CONTENTS. 



PAOB 



Dedication - - - - - - -v 



Editor's Preface - - - - - - xi 



Contents --.-.-. xix 



Author's Preface - - - - - - 1 



LECTUEE I. 



Introduction. — Difficulties of the subject. — Materials. — Collections of 

 Crania. — Skeletons. — Anatomy of the Races. — Man to be studied 

 like any other Mammal. — Objections of Theologians. — Morton and 

 Bachman. — Comparative Study of Domestic Animals. — Antiquity 

 of the Human Species. — Objections of Naturalists. — Researches of 

 Boucher de Perthes - - - - - 5 



LECTUEE II. 



Method of investigation. — Mixed Types. — Average Man and Skvill. — 

 Use of the French Metrical System. — Scherzer and Schwarz's 

 System of Measurement. — Craniometry. — Fixed Points in the 

 Skull. — Choice of the Thinnest Places. — Busk's System of Mea- 

 surement. — Aeby's System. — Horizontal and Vertical Planes. — Ee- 

 lation of the Skull to the Face. — Camper's Facial Angle. — Mea- 

 surement of the Base and Vault of the Cranium. — Welcker's 

 System of Measurement. — Cranial Angle ; Skull; Net. — Von Baer's 

 Nomenclature for Cranial Forms. — Coronal View : Longheads, 

 Medium Heads, and Short Heads. — Profile View : Prognathism 

 and Orthognathism.— Anterior and Posterior View : Tower Heads, 

 Pyramidal Heads, and Eoof Heads. — Scherzer-Schwarz's Scheme. 

 — Tables of Cranial Measurements after Virchow, Welcker, Von 

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LECTUEE III. 



Pictorial representations. — Ethnic portraits generally Caricatures. — 

 Photographic Drawings. — Perspective delineations. — Geometrical 

 Drawings after Lucae. — Instruments required. — Casts. — Casts of 

 the internal Cranial surface. — Proportions. — Sexual differences in 

 the formation of the Cranium. — Examination of the Brain. — 

 Weight. — Weight of the Brain in relation to the body. — Estima- 

 tion of the Cranial Capacity. — Method and results. — Broca's 

 researches on Parisian Skulls. — Increase of Cranial Capacity in 

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