Eveline Y. Thomson 
95 
by t\ve. frontal index = 100 x subtense of nasio-bregmatic arc/nasio-bregmatic chord. 
The value of this index for the Moriori crania is cJ 19-39, ? 21-14. Comparative 
numbers are: 
Cranium of the Murderer Thurtell ... ... ^ 21-65 
Whitechapel English of 17th century S 22-21 
Guanche Crania ... ... ... ... ... 22-50 
Egyptians of XXVI-XXX Dynasty 6 22-77 
Eskimo Crania S 22-78 
Negroes (Congo) 22-80 
Cro-Magnon Skull 24-27 
It will be seen that the male Moriori stands lowest on the list of racial values 
available. 
Of further points noted by Scott the statement* that "the excess of width 
over height is generally well-marked; indeed in the most typical members of 
the group the brain case is distinctly flattened," needs, perhaps, further con- 
sideration. The feature in question may be measured by the use of Pearson's 
index 100 {B — H) /L. We have then the following racial table : 
Values of 100 (5- H)IL. 
Wiirtemberg Women 
+ 9-6 
Aino Women ... 
+ 0-9 
Wurtemberg Men 
+ 9-5 
Aino Men 
+ 0-9 
Bavarian Women 
+ 9-2 
Gaboon Men (188U) 
+ 0-9 
Bavarian Men 
+ 9-0 
Maori Men 
+ 0-7 
English Women (Moorfields) . . . 
+ 7-9 
Maori Women 
+ 0-5 
French Men 
+ 7-2 
Coptic Women 
+ 0-5 
English Men (Moorfields) ... 
+ 7-1 
Gaboon Women (1864) 
+ 0-5 
EngUsh Women (Whitechapel) 
+ 5-6 
Theban Mummies, Men 
+ 0-4 
English Men (Whitechapel) ... 
+ 4-2 
Gaboon Men (1864) 
+ 0-0 
Moriori Men ... 
+ 3-5 
Kaffir Men 
+ 0-0 
Moriori Women 
+ 3-2 
Australian Men 
- 0-2 
Congo Men 
+ 2-6 
Coptic Men 
- 0-2 
Australian Women ... 
+ 2-4 
Prehistoric Egyptian (Naqada) 
Long Barrow Women 
-1- 2-3 
Men 
- 0-3 
Long Barrow Men ... 
+ 2-2 
Gaboon Women (1880) 
- 0-4 
Fuegian Men 
+ 2-0 
Zulu Men 
- 0-7 
Congo Women t 
+ 1-9 
Angoni Men ... 
- 1-2 
Theban Mummies, Women... 
+ 1-8 
Negro Men (North Africa) ... 
- 1-3 
Prehistoric Egyptian (Naqad a) 
Women ... 
+ 1-0 
Judged by this index the Moriori stand for excess of breadth over height per 
unit of length at the top of all the early and primitive races and nearest to modern 
Europeans, and this is a feattire which differentiates them from Maori and 
* loc. cit. p. 25. 
t Erroneously placed as 
1-9 in Biomdnka, Vol. viii. 
.307. 
