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prominent point on the back of the liead, 185, the greatest breadth 

 of the head, which as a rule falls below and in front of the tubera 

 parietalia, 138, and its height, which here has been measured from 

 the front edge of the foramen to the bregma, the point 

 of contact of the sagittal and coronal sutures, 138 mm. From 

 these three measurement have been calculated a cephahc index 

 of 721, an vertico-horizontal- index (or better index of height) 

 of 74, and a vertico-tranversal- index of 103'4. I have already 

 spoken of the relation between the first of these and the corre- 

 sponding index of the living heads, and the two others cannot be 

 obtained on living heads. I might here take occasion to compare 

 these points, viz., the cephalic index and the index of height 

 with what we know as to otlier Eskimo tribes, but as a great part 

 of the available material has regard to very small series and to 

 some extent is lacking in local indications, this material cannot be 

 used as a basis for examinations into the reciprocal race relations 

 of the different tribes or the origin of the whole race; however, in 

 the near future the materials will be augmented by the treatment 

 of the large series of skulls from West Greenland (about 200) which 

 are to be found in our museums, and as we can likewise expect 

 valuable supplementation from North America, there is no occasion 

 for drawing hasty conclusions. 



The smallest breadth over the forehead between the recipro- 

 cally nearest points of the lineae semicirculares is on an average 

 95 mm. This measurement, the smallness of which is to a great 

 extent responsible for the pyramidical form of the skulls in the 

 norma facialis, particularly in proportion to the breadth over the 

 zygomatic arches, is of particular interest in the case of the East 

 Greenlanders, because they are seen in this case too to diverge more 

 widely from the Asiatic groups of the yellow race than the other 

 Eskimo tribes, and thus again appear at the tail-end of the line. 

 If we consider the breadth of the forehead in proportion to the 

 length of the head, we get an index of 510, whereas Broca's 

 Eskimo skulls have an index of 498; in relation to the breadth 

 the index is 70"7 among the East Greenianders, 697 among Broca's 

 Eskimo, and 65'9 in his Chinese skulls. Unfortunately Bessels has 

 failed to take this and many other important measurements on his 

 numerous skulls from Smith's Sound. 



The different face measurements on skulls are not so instructive 

 as the corresponding measurements on living persons, owing to the 

 fact that a large number of teeth have fallen out, which has made 

 it impossible to measure the sagittal distances. Referring the reader 

 to my previous observations on the form of the face amongst the 



