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teen had indices ranging frona 68-2 to 76-7, with a mean index of 

 72-6, but the mean index of the male crania is 71-4 ; the remaining 

 two crania had indices of 78'5 and 78-8, the total index being 73-2. 

 Philippe Salmon has recently (" Ethnologic prehistoriqne : Denombre- 

 ment et types des Cranes Neolithiques de la Granle" in Eevue mensuelle 

 de I'Ecole d' Anthropologic de Paris, 1895) published in a conyenient 

 foi-m an enumeration of the length-breadth indices and the biblio- 

 graphy of all the ISTeolithic crania of France and its borders ; and the 

 reader is referred to this valuable Paper for further evidence respect- 

 ing the distribution of these indigenous dolichocephals or ' ' Type de 

 Baumes-Chaudes," as he prefers to style it. 



The Baumes-Chaudes tribe belonged to what is now generally 

 called the Mediterranean Race, of which the Gruanches^ of the Canary 

 Islands are, perhaps, the purest living representatives. I have 

 tabulated some mean indices of these two representatives of the race, 

 and it will be seen that they compare very closely with the two Irish 

 crania under discussion. 



The Co. Tyrone cranium is as well-marked a cranium as the other 

 two, but clearly belonging to a very different race. 



Intermediate between this and the two first are the Phoenix Park 

 No. 2 andlS'o. 3 crania. These appear to belong to a mixed race. The 

 former, however, is probably a modification of the dolichocephalic 

 group, and might be classed among them, while the latter seems to 

 belong to the brachycephalic group. The glabello-occipital length of 

 the former is 183 and of the latter 182 mm,, while that from the 

 Tyrone kistvaen is only 176 mm. M. Salmon has drawn attention to 

 a similar mixture of types in France, and he has traced the racial 

 movements that these facts indicate. Of the 688 indices that he has 

 enumerated the preponderating indices are 73 and 74. The dolicho- 

 cephals mount up to 57'7 per cent. : (it must be remembered that he 

 classes all skulls up to 77 as dolichocephals, instead of the more usual 

 limit of 75): the mesaticephals are 21'1 per cent.; and the brachy- 

 cephals 2r2 per cent. The fact that 53 skulls have an index of 78 

 denotes an already pronounced mixture. The number of indices of 70 

 and 80 are equal (29, 30). Indices are exceptional or rare from 63 to 

 68 and from 85 to 97. The proportion of the two original races is 

 as 397 is to 146; the mixed race (145) are equal in number to the 

 brachycephals (146). 



1 Cf. an important paper, by F. C. Shrubsall, on " Crania from Teneriife," 

 Proc. Camb. Pbilosopb. Soc, ix. 1895, p. 154. 



