4 DAVID HEPBURN. [No. 2. 



The opportunity of examining so many Scandinavian crania 

 being unusual so far as the collections in this country are con- 

 cerned, I determined to extend my observations so as to include 

 the complete cranial measurements, and the results of this exa- 

 mination will be found in the appended Tables. 



The material sent to me by Professor Guldberg includes 

 eleven crania collected in Oslo, which is now a suburb of 

 Kristiania, but was originally a separate town, founded by Harold 

 Hardraade about 1050 A. D. Seven crania were from Tønsberg, 

 the oldest town in Norway, situated at the head of the Tøns- 

 berg Fjord, which is adjacent to, but on the west side of the 

 entrance to the Kristiania Fjord. Five crania had been collected 

 at Sole, a village on the west coast of Jæderen and about eight 

 English miles south-west of Stavanger. The remaining skull 

 was labelled Trondhjem. 



My first concern was to ascertain the Cephalic Index of 

 each skull in order to arrange them for future reference. Follow- 

 ing the usual British method of classification, and taking those 

 as dolicho-cephalic whose cephalic index was 75 or under; as 

 mesati-cephalic, whose cephalic index was from 76 to 80; and 

 as brachy-cephalic whose cephalic index was above 80, I found 

 that fourteen crania were dolicho-cephalic, viz. eleven from Oslo, 

 two from Sole, and one from Tønsberg. Five were mesati- 

 cephalic, viz. two from Tønsberg, two from Sole, and one from 

 Trondhjem. The remaining five, viz. four from Tønsberg and 

 one from Sole, were brachy-cephalic. 



The dolicho-cephalic character was well-marked in all the 

 skulls from Oslo with one exception (144), in which the index 

 reached the lower limit of mesati-cephaly. It was also well- 

 marked in the Tønsberg skull (284), but approximated to mesati- 

 cephaly in the two from Sole (341 & 354). Of the five mesati- 

 cephalic skulls, three lay towards the brachy-cephalic end of the 

 scale, and two towards the dolicho-cephalic end. The five brachy- 

 cephalic skulls were typical examples of their kind. 



It will thus be seen that from the point of view of locality, 

 the skulls from Oslo were all dolicho-cephalic; those from Tøns- 



