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species of man acknowledged^ in the recent system of classification of 
Dr. Haekel, seven were represented on the table by skulls or casts, [(viz., 
Homo Caucasicus, White Species 1 ; H. Americanus, Red Sp. ; H. Mongolicus* 
Yellow Sp. ; H. >rcticus, Polar Sp. ; H. polynesius, Malayan Sp. ; H. 
Alfurus, New Holland Sp. ; H. Afer, Central African Species), the exceptions 
being the Homo papua, and the H. hottentottus. He then proceeded with 
his discourse, taking as a starting point a cast of a very fine ancient'Greek 
skull, well developed in every point without striking excess anywhere, 
yielding a modulus or breadth index of seventy-nine, and thus taking a 
position between brachycephali and decided dolichocephali. The other 
heads, he said, might be ranged round this one, and found to exceed or fall 
below it in various directions. Keeping with the usually recognised limits 
of the so-called Caucasian variety, he took up the head of a Hindoo from 
Bombay, and that of a Cingalese. Each of these represented a people 
composed of an Aryan and native element, the Cingalese being the 
descendants of a colony (probably to a great extent of Aryan or highest 
blood) who invaded Ceylon from Bengal several centuries before the 
Christian era. The two heads were very much alike, being both small and 
regularly oval, and without strong lines or prominences, and thus fairly 
representing the common low caste Hindoo Type. The modulus in the 
one was seventy-four, in the other (the Cingalese) seventy-one. A Swiss 
head cast was next examined, and found to be extremely brachycephalous, the 
modulus being eighty-six ; and Dr, Beddoe entered at some length into the 
history of the race types of Switzerland and Swabia, showing how the orginal 
(Rhcetian) brachycephali had, in course of time, come to preponderate 
over the dolichocephalous Allemans and Swabians, who had conquered them. 
He then contrasted the Swiss head with two belonging to the so-called 
Mongolian variety— one Turkish, the other Chinese. The modulus was 
nearly the same in all three, but the Swiss was most elevated about or 
before the coronal suture ; the others in the region ascribed tofirmness by 
the phrenologists. The Zygomata and Malars were much more developed in 
the Mongolian specimens, and the general result was that these were more 
rounded, the Swiss head more square. The Chinese head, he said, was 
perhaps an extreme specimen ; as a rule the Chinese were less brachy- 
cephalous than the tribes of the hill countries south, west and north of the 
plains of China ; and it was suggested, hypothetically, that the influence of 
civilization might perhaps tend to reduce a strongly-marked type towards 
an average or medium form. 
Other heads were then successively passed under review — a Blackfoot 
Indian, a Carib— hideously distorted, and two Peruvians ; an Inca (?) skull 
