A SECOND STUDY OF THE ENGLISH SKULL, WITH 
SPECIAL EEFERENCE TO MOORFIELDS CRANIA. 
By W. R. MACDONELL, LL.D. 
(1) Introductory. 
I NOW publish the detailed measurements of the series of English (Moorfields) 
skulls to which reference was made pansim in my paper in Biometrika, Vol. ill. 
pp. 191 — 244. The collection is in the possession of Professor G. D. Thane, of 
University College, London, and I have again to thank him very cordially for 
granting my fellow-workers and myself every facility for measuring and studying 
the skulls. I have also to express my gratitude to him for the great aid he has 
given in preparing the description of the anatomical peculiarities of the skulls 
provided in the " Remarks " to my Tables of Measurements. The collection is 
much smaller than the Whitechapel series, the subject of my former paper; it is 
too small, for instance, to allow of a satisfactory determination of coefficients of 
correlation, and I have therefore not worked them out except in two or three cases; 
but in other respects this series is quite as interesting as the former one. The 
preservation of the crania for scientific purposes was due in the first place to the 
energy of Mr S. Jacob, at that time working in the Biometric Laboratory at 
University College, London. Only an Indian appointment prevented him from 
carrying out the biometric investigation of the material, which I then undertook, 
starting de novo to avoid the influence of personal equation. 
(2) Material and History of the Site. 
Professor Karl Pearson and I examined the site together, and compared the old 
maps, and he has kindly drawn up for me the following notes. We have to thank 
Mr Welch, of the Guildhall Library, Mr Wood-Hill, Engineer of the North London 
Railway, and the staff of the Map and Print Departments of the British Museum, 
for assisting us in our inquiry. 
The problems as to the date and mode of interment of the Moorfields remains 
are, as in the case of the Whitechapel bones, rendered very ct)mplex by the fact 
