1884.] Anthropology. 839 
type of nervous organization, that is, a type of organization com- 
mon to his species. 
nal manifestations of internal structures. To the question as to 
the relative importance of direct and indirect equilibration I 
could give no definite answer within the limits of this article, and 
therefore gave quotations from Darwin and Herbert spencer. 
wolf on the snow; the trap was thrown to some distance. Evi- 
dently the bear had put his paw in the trap and had managed 
to jerk it off. The next night the forester hid himself within 
shot of the carcass to watch for the bear. The bear came, but 
first pulled down a stack of firewood cut into seven-foot lengths, 
selected a piece to his mind, and taking it up in his arms, walked 
on his hind legs to the carcass. He then beat about in the snow 
all round the carcass with the log of wood before he began his 
meal. The forester put a ball in his head, which I almost regret, 
as such a’sensible brute deserved to live.” 
ANTHROPOLOGY.' 
UNIFORM Crantometry.—In September, 1877, a craniometric 
conference was held in Munich (Correspondens6latt, 1878, No. 7), 
nd a second conference in August, 1880, in Berlin (Correspon- 
denzblatt, Bericht uber die x1., Allg. VersammL., pp. 104-106). At 
‘the thirteenth general meeting at Frankfort, August, 1882, a 
pe d scheme was proposed. This is published in Archiv für 
Anthropologie, xv, pp. 1-8, 1884, and signed by sixty-seven of 
e most eminent anthropologists in Germany, Switzerland, Aus- 
tria, Italy and Russia. ; 
e Horizontal—The line selected for the horizontal of the 
skull is that extending from the lower edge of the orbital cavity 
ni middle of the ear cavity or the upper edge of the internal 
S; 
The linear measures of the cranium are 16; of the face, 15. 
The capacity of the skull is taken with shot, if possible. The 
Cranial indices are as follows: : 
lichocephal dou caansenses® > 75 and under. 
y J Raedas: ; ete ae 781—799- 
yi 
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