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A Study of the Negro Skull 
The feeling that remains on my mind after study of this list is the sad pity of 
it, — it is so futile ! — one feels quite certain that the French and the Wiirtemberger 
are displaced, and that a very little standardisation of the breadth measurement 
would have provided us with as instructive a table as those for the acroplatic and 
the gnathic indices. The table represents the measurement of hundreds of orbits and 
hours and hours of tedious work, and the result for want of careful standardisation 
is almost worthless. No one is likely to believe that the French and a considerable 
section of the German population have as round an orbit as Zulu and Kaffir. The 
table, were it above suspicion, would probably show us the Congo-Gaboon group at 
one end, the European races at the other, the Kaffir-Zulu group following the 
Congo-Gaboon negroes and separated from the Europeans by the Egyptian and 
primitive races. But as it stands, it tells us nothing more than our previous table — 
that of our few standardised measurements — namely, that the Congo-Gaboon group 
and the English are at opposite ends of the orbital scale. The table provides one 
great and important lesson : the urgent need for effective standardisation in cranio- 
metric work. If crauiologists, instead of trying to do something a little bit different 
from their colleagues, would only strive to do exactly the same thing, they would 
double the speed at which their science would develop. At present all we can 
say is that all work hitherto done on palate and orbit is practically worthless for 
interracial comparisons ! 
Lastly, we turn to the nose where we have the height, breadth and nasal index 
for a number of races and the mesodacryal chord and arc, as well as the meso- 
dacryal indices for a few races. 
Nasal Characters. (Table A.) 
Nasal Height 
Nasal Breadth 
Nasal Index 
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Zulus ... 
47-2 
27-3 
58'1 
Angonis 
48-5 
28-0 
58-0 
Kaffirs 
48-6 
28-0 
56-3 
Gaboon, 1880 
47-9 
45-3 
27-1 
25-7 
56-5 
56-9 
Northern Negroes ... 
49-5 
27-3 
55-4 
Gaboon, 1864... 
48-2 
45-1 
26-6 
24-7 
55-3 
54-9 
Congo ... 
47-2 
45 -0 
26-0 
25-0 
55-2 
55-8 
Naqadas 
48-9 
46-7 
. 25-1 
24-3 
51-1 
52-3 
Aino ... 
50-5 
47-4 
25-6 
24-7 
50-7 
50-5 
Theban Mummies 
50'6 
48-4 
25-3 
24-2 
50-1 
50-2 
Copts ... 
50-7 
45-3 
24-9 
24-6 
49-4 
54-6 
Long Barrow ... 
49-4 
47-0 
24-1 
22-8 
49-0 
49-1 
Bavarian 
50-9 
48-2 
24-8 
23-7 
48-7 
49-2 
English (Moorfields)... 
50-4 
48-0 
24-0 
23-4 
47-6 
48-7 
English (Whitechapel) 
51-2 
48-7 
24-3 
23-2 
47-6 
47-8 
Wiirtemberger 
51-5 
45-7 
23-9 
23-0 
46-6 
50-3 
French 
51-2 
23-1 
45-3 
Scottish 
52-4 
48-7 
23-2 
23-2 
44-5 
44-1 
