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Eskimo and the Lapps, thinks tha:: '• if these peoples were originally 

 one, the Es imo have remained far truer to the type of the men of 

 the oldest stone age," and that " Prof. Dawkins is so far justified 

 in affiliating or at least comparing the first known inhabitants of 

 Europe, the men of the caves, not with tlie Lapps, but with the 

 Eskimo." Sir Daniel Wilson^ is of opinion that " it is impossible to 

 look on casts of the large and finely developed Cro-Magnon skull 

 now in my possesion, without being struck with the extreme contrast 

 betvveen them and the Eskimo." And the height of the Cro-magnon 

 man has been held to bs an objection to Prof. Dawkins' view. But 

 the Cro-magnon s[)ecimen is probably an exaggerated one, just as we 

 find a considerable difference between the Eskimo of the extreme 

 West and East in height and other respects, the truth being most 

 probably as Dr. Mattel - observes, " Quant a la taille de ces hommes 

 primitifs, elle ^tait petite ou moyenne, quoique le squelette de Cro- 

 Magnon ofifre un exemple de taille assez elev^e." Rolleston^ concludes 

 an article on the Prehistoric Crania of Britain in the following words, 

 " There are many reasons for supposing that tlie Eskimo are a race 

 which still retains and preserves for us, in the structure and gram- 

 tical peculiarities of its language, its life history, and physical p^^culi- 

 arities, the very closest likeness to what we believe some of the 

 earliest races of mankind must have been." M. Mortillet* considers 

 that the Greenlanders are descended from the men whose remains of 

 the palaeolithic epoch are found at La Madelaine in France, agreeing 

 with Prof. Dawkins. Rolleston ^ and Broca *" have noted the corres- 

 pondence of the Eskimo nasal index to that of prehistoric European 

 skulls, and Cleland^and Rolleston* have called attention to the 

 elongation of the basicranial axis. Prof. E. D. Cope ^ accounts for 

 appearance of tritubercular molars in certain "Western European races, 

 by reference to the theory of Prof. Body Dawkins, as such dentition 



1. Add. of Sir Daniel Wilson, LL.D., Vioe-Pres. Sec. H. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci., Montreal, 1882, 



p. 532. See also "the fancy of an Eskimo pedigree for European Palaeolithic Man." 

 Proc. and Trans. Roy. Assoc, of Canada, Vol. I. (1882-3) p. 57. 



2. Les anciens peuples de I'Europe centrale. Mem. de la Soc. d'Anthr. de Paris II. Ser. T. 1. 



3. Scientific Papers. (Ed. by Turner, 1884) Vol. I. p. 320. [p. 431. 



4. Les Groenlandais descendants des Magdaleniens. Soc. d'Anthr. de Paris, 1885. pp. 868-870. 



5. Log. cit. p. 11. 



6. Revue d'Anthrop. 1873. II. p. 191. 



7. Philosophical Transactions, 1870, p. 124. 



8. Loc. cit. p. 191. 



9. On Lemurine Reversion in Human Dentition, Anier. Nat., Nov. 1886. p. 947. 



