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LECTURE XIII. 



fundamental type of wliicli is not obliterated, thougli various 

 intermixtures have taken place with later immigrants. 



The constancy of form extends even to apparently trifling 

 circumstances. When Von Baer, in his treatise on Romanic 

 skulls, says that the Alemannic stock had, generally, a wider 

 and shorter skull than the Franconian or Hessian, it is perfectly 

 correct; but it should be added, that there obtain great dif- 

 ferences even within the Alemannic stock ; thus the Suabian 

 skulls are much shorter and rounder than those of the neigh- 

 bouring Swiss, which are so much distinguished by their 

 angular form and greater length, that the skulls of the battle- 

 chapel of Dornach can be easily distinguished and separated 

 accordingly. 



It would be a great mistake to believe that there occur in 

 Switzerland no other types than those mentioned, and which 

 are perhaps as old as the cranium of Meilen, or perhaps the 

 remains of later, though still pre-historical immigrations. 

 Baer has drawn attention to that remarkable brachycephahc 

 form which occurs in the Grisons, and of which I here give 

 some outlines of the skull of a very aged man, taken from a 



Fig. 126. Eomanic Head of the Grisons in Profile. 



Geneva churchyard, now in possession of my colleague. Profes- 

 sor Claraparede. 



