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TABLE I.— MEAN MEASUREMENTS OF CEANIA FROM THE SANTA BARBARA ISLANDS, CALIFORNIA.* 



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73 



62 



18 



18 



7 



4 



45 



35 



20 



12 



9 



6 



1,302 

 1,175 

 1,318 

 1,246 

 1,326 

 1,253 

 1,365 

 1,219 

 1,470 

 1,279 

 1,452 

 1,315 



177 

 170 

 176 

 172 

 181 

 173 

 178 

 172 

 189 

 17S 

 186 

 179 



140- 

 135 

 140 

 137 

 137 

 140 

 138 

 134 

 133 

 130 

 137 

 135 



134 

 128 

 131 

 128 

 132 

 124 

 132 

 128 

 130 

 124 

 131 

 125 



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 .791 

 .794 

 .805 

 .760 

 .808 

 .776 

 .77S 

 .704 

 .729 

 .740 

 .754 



.750 

 .752 



.738 

 .747 

 .730 

 .718 

 .741 

 .748 

 .690 

 .696 

 .702 

 .700 



.90 

 .86 

 .95 



.92 

 .94 

 .90 



Army Medical Museum. 



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San Nicolas. — Males 











Females 



Average of males 



178 

 137 



1,372 

 1,248 

 1,310 



181 

 174 

 177 



137 

 135 

 136 



131 

 126 



128 



.760 



.777 

 .708 



.725 

 .727 

 .720 



.93 



.89 

 . .91 









315 



1,747 

 990 

 757 



195 

 157 

 38 



154 

 122 

 32 



145 



116 



29 







1.05 

 .80 

 .25 

















* These measurements are given as follows: Capacity in cubic centimetres; length, breadth, and height in 

 millimetres . 



Historically speaking, there is but little that can be learned about the 

 people who formerly inhabited these islands, and with whose skulls we have 

 been making' somewhat familiar. In the brief summary that Mr. Putnam 

 has elsewhere given, this coast is shown to have been occupied by numer- 

 ous tribes, living in different villages, speaking different languages, or dif- 

 ferent and scarcely intelligible dialects of the same language, and closely 

 resembling, in these respects at least, the Indians of the Atlantic seaboard 

 at the date of the first settlements in Virginia and New England. This, 

 with now and then a small and imperfect vocabulary, comprises the sum 

 and substance of all that the early chroniclers have told us about these 

 people for the two centuries immediately succeeding the discovery of this 

 country by the Spaniards, and it is so very meagre and unsatisfactory that 

 we turn, with a certain sense of relief, to the study of their crania and of 

 the other contents of their tombs in the hope that some further light may 

 be thrown upon a subject that otherwise must forever remain shrouded 

 in darkness. But while this revelation of the spade and pickaxe — infal- 



