166 Søren Hansen. 



the law of variation applying to these series in a perfectly satisfact- 

 ory manner — , I shall present the figures in the same manner 

 as in the case of the cephalic index. 



Index Number 



—69-9 1 



70-0— 71-9 



72-0— 73-9 3 



74-0-75-9 5 



76-0-77-9 2 



78 0-79-9 10 



80-0-81-9 15 



82-0— 83-9 21 



84-0— 85-9 16 



86-0-87-9 8 



88-0— 89-9 4 



90-0-91-9 2 



92-0-93-9 



940— 1 



The irregularities in this series can hardly be expected to be 



less with such a small total. 



The facial index proper must, according to what has been re- 

 marked above, be somewhat greater than that of the skulls, and, 

 accordingly, no importance can be attached to the fact that the 

 little series of skulls brought back by the Expedition gives a con- 

 trary result, as other series in their turn go so far to the opposite 

 extremity that they counterbalance one another ^). The materials 

 at our disposal are, however, so scanty that I must confine myself 

 to remarking that the East Greenlanders belong to the most lepto- 

 prosopic races, and are thus more or less on a par with the other 

 yellow races (the Chinese) and the Europeans. It would be interesting 

 to see to what extent the height of the lower jaw (from the chin 

 to the row of teeth) influences this result; its powerful all-round 

 development might lead one to presume that it is a factor of 

 considerable importance, although the examination of the proportion 

 in skulls without the lower jaw also gives a larger facial index 

 among the Eskimo than in other races; but data for a final deter- 

 mination of this question are still lacking. 



There is, accordingly, no occasion for dwelling longer on the 

 index facialis inferior, and I shall therefore content myself with 

 remarking thai there might be good grounds for terming the 

 Eskimo's face 'elliptic' rather than 'oval', inasmuch as its com- 

 paratively greater breadth in its lower part renders the latter term 

 less appropriate, as it leads one to think of the classical "almond-shape". 



'j Prunci- Bey: liesullat.s de ciaiiiumeti-ie. Mem. Sue. autlii'. l^iris 11. IMli,"). 



