242 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 
(2.) With respect to Sizp, numbers 4, 5 and 12 on the table are 
noticeable as representing the two extremes ; No. 4 being the sixth in 
point of size of all aboriginal American crania on record,* 
The following table of comparative measurements will explain better 
than words the average proportions of these crania, as compared with 
those from other localities in North America. 
Comparative Table of Cranial Measurements. 
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Mean of 83 erania from| 4st 78t T7t 61t 72 58t 69t 
Madisonville. Bats. 1337 109 139 135 .825 799} 93 
Mean of 67 crania from 30 67 6k 40 
stone-graves in Tenn.| 1341 166 | 141 142 .852| .804) 91 
Mean of 21 crania from 18 21 21 21 
stone-graves in Tenn.| 1335 165 143 141 O72) Sonera 
Mean of 38 crania from 24 37 38 36 
a mound in Kentucky.| 1313.33} 165.4) 142.28) 182 857, .769) 92.7 
Mean of 10 erania from 2 10 8 4 
caves in Ky. and Tenn.| 1382 168 | 140 143 831} .823) 90 
Mean of erania from 39 118 115 78 
mounds in U.S .....° 1374 168 145 139 867; .821 
Mean of 18 crania from a 16 18 Tut 
Mlorida.. 024). See 1375 7 173.5| 145 185.6] .830| = .777| 98.47 
Mean of 103 crania from 
Santa Barbara, Cal....| 1248 L7bag tsb 129 779| = .741) 98 
Mean of 50 ecrania from 
Islands off Santa Bar- 
bara; California...;... 1326 184. 133 128 .(23| 680) 93 
Wew Englands. ta..s) o/s. 2. «)) AR ores 136 OO) >, dae ae 
MET AUOUS ais, cere). patsascage | owe, ee Bie oi tel es 15 7/ 137 TAO; TAO ee stat 
AT OOINOMUM et ota g eis [2 ae on .| 184 141 136 .f OO) are 
Algonquin (Lenape) ..| .......{ 180 | 140 137 epee fly os ae 
Ee sauiiniaixn) eo Ae Pee ces salt el ee ley 138 TOA Toe 
PSCHUKEC Tes, coe Bee: Sail apd. 135 137 OT ise 
The capacity of the average European skull is given by different 
authorities at 1510 to 1531 «. c. The index of breadth ranges from 
.750 to .800 in the various European nations, being lowest (.750-.760) 
* This skull has been described and figured in a previous paper; see this JOURNAL, 
vol. iii., p. 54, plates 2 and 3, 
t+ This table, with the exception of the first item, is taken from the Eleventh Annual 
Report of the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, 1878, p. 368. 
{ Tue small figures refer to the number of crania measured in each particular respect. 
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