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Crania g as 120 mm. (Journal of the R. Anthrop. Institute, Vol. xxxvm. p. 430) 
and of the Rothwell Crania £ as 120 mm. also (Ibid. Vol. XL. p. 490). But I can 
nowhere find a statement of how he measured the auricular height, i.e. from the 
top or centre of the auricular passage, or how he made the skull horizontal. I sent 
my assistant Miss E. V. Thompson with our craniophor down to the Royal College 
of Surgeons and she measured the auricular height of the 33 available modern 
English crania, kindly placed at our disposal by Professor Keith. The result was 
114'6, in perfect agreement with our Whitechapel and Liverpool Street crania, 
and wholly different from the measures given for Rothwell and Hythe. Ranke's 
Bavarian 121 mm. was probably due to the fact that he measured in the field, and 
thus used a craniometer measuring from the centre of the auricular passage. 
I suspect Parsons has done the same, without recognising that such measurements 
are wholly incompatible with our standardised Frankfurt concordat measurements. 
Anderson in a paper just issued (Journal, R. A. Institute, Vol. XL. p. 274) gives 
7"2 mm. for the height of head minus height of skulls for 34 ,/s average age 69. 
But he has measured apparently from the centre of the auricular passage and this 
would give a further correction of 5 — 6 mm. at least, just the 13 — 14 mm. 
required by Benington, but not the 21 mm. needed, if he is in error. Thus 
Lee's difference of 11 mm. for the auricular height is rather too small than, as 
Anderson suggests, too large. 
