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The congruity between the two groups of measiirings is, 

 as may be seen, even surprisingly great which is not quite 

 without importance, I presume. The fact is, that when as here 

 two different examiners at different times have arrived at so to 

 speak the same result by measuring a number of individuals, 

 not quite small in proportion to the whole population, and not 

 the same individuals the two times, it may surely be said to 

 prove that the result is correct, not only that the measurings 

 have been fairly correctly executed both times, but also that 

 the number has been sufficiently great to give a trustworthy 

 expression of the real facts. The result, then, becomes this, 

 that the form of the head of the East-Greenlanders , as also 

 stated by Søren Hansen , is pronounced mesaticephalous , yet 

 more particularly tending to dolicocephalism and not pronounced 

 dolicocephalous as formerly stated for the Eskimaux generally 

 by Broca, Virchow and Girard de Rialle among others. 



To determine the length of the face I have Ике the former 

 examiners measured the length of the face viz. the distance 

 from glabella to the kin, the "breadth of the zygoma" or more 

 correctly the distance between the two zygomata and the breadth 

 of the nether jaw viz. the distance between the angles of the 

 nether jaw, measured when the mouth was open. From these 

 measures Søren Hansen has calculated three indices, namely: 



index facialis superior^ viz. {the proportion between breadth 

 of zygoma and length of face. 



index gonio-zygomaticus^ viz. the proportion between breadth 

 of zygoma and breadth of nether jaw. and 



index facialis inferior^ viz. the proportion between length 

 of face and breadth of nether jaw. 



The averages of these indices are: 



According to According to my 

 Søren Hansen measurings 



index facial, sup 103-8 100-9 



index gonio-zygomat 82-3 80-4 



index facial, inf 85-4 81-1 



