436 A Study of the Nasal Bridge in the Anthropoid Apes 
and all districts, are about all that the English worker has to rely upon at 
present, and that it may be doubted whether he could find the same number of 
dog skulls of known sex, of one breed and of fairly certain age, anywhere in 
the country, he will, we hope, pardon one source of the inadequacy of the present 
study. 
In choosing the nasal bridge we had in view the importance of the nasal 
organs as a factor of survival, and we believe we have at least indicated that with 
caution the parts of the bridge can be measured and comparative results obtained. 
The measurements lead directly, we think, to the suggestion of a racial scale and 
throw light on the importance of dealing with groups of correlated characters 
and not with isolated anatomical units. The classification we have suggested, 
both in the limits of its categories and its terminology, is of course not put 
forward as final, but we believe it will be helpful as a step to a good ultimate 
classification and as enabling meanwhile the characters of the nasal bridge of any 
other race to be associated with those treated in this paper. The needful measure- 
ments are simotic chord and simotic subtense, and again mesodacryal chord and 
subtense ; from the first two the simotic nasal angle can be readily found and 
from all four the maxillary nasal angle. The two taken in conjunction will enable 
the recorder to classify the nose by aid of Table XXV. 
On the whole we consider that Merejkowsky broke fruitful ground, especially, 
if the discussion of the nasal bridge be extended to the mesodacryal chord and 
subtense, which appear of more evolutionary importance than his simotic chord 
and subtense ; but there will undoubtedly have to be standardisation of individual 
craniometricians in a far higher degree than even for the macrometric measure- 
ments of the skull, if these micrometric measurements arc to be dealt with con- 
fidently. 
Addendum. Since this paper was written, it occurred to us that the Moriori 
crania from Chatham Island in the Royal College of Surgeons might be worth 
investigating from the standpoint of the nasal bridge — as they are undoubtedly 
worth investigating from their general craniometric importance. 
The nasal bridges, however, turned out to be of no markedly primitive type, 
as the accompanying contours will indicate. 
Moriori Nasal Contours. 
They are mesotic mesogephyreal, and stand between Malay and Aino with : 
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cf> 40-0° 490° 
<j>' 40-6° 34-3° 
48 crania were taken as male, 15 as female. 
