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that it seems idle to deal in more detail with them. On the other hand there is 
undoubted affinity to the Maori ; and rather surprising resemblances to the Aino 
and to the Fuegians are worth taking into consideration. The full discussion of 
the proper method of representing racial affinity by a single coefficient must remain 
undiscussed at present. A rough measure will only be used here; we take the 
mean percentage difference of each race, for males only, on the basis of the Moriori 
means, and then consider the mean of these percentages as a working coefficient. 
Table IV gives these percentage differences to a single decimal place, and we 
note at once the following points: 
(i) While the Maori are nearest of the races considered to the Moriori, both 
Aino and Fuegian are surprisingly close. 
(ii) Seventeenth century English are more distant than the Fuegians, but 
have very far from the deviation of a race like the Sudanese Negroes (i.e. 3-92 
as compared with 5-80). 
(iii) The current view that the Moriori are like the Maori an intermixture of 
Polynesian and Melanesian stock scarcely receives confirmation from Table IV ; 
the Moriori stand nearer to the Londoner of the 17th century than to the Negro. 
(iv) The Maori themselves are still more closely related to the Fuegian (2-87 
as against 3-13) than the Moriori. 
Thus it is difficult to believe that there has not at some time been a race-link 
between the present denizens of extreme South America and the denizens of 
extreme Polynesia. 
It is very regrettable that our data for the Long Barrow inhabitants of Britain 
are so slender. Macdonell has already pointed out their relative closeness to 17th 
century Londoners and the work of Crewdson Benington* seems to show that the 
English commonalty of to-day is one with the 17th century Londoners. We have 
to look to the bulk of the English population to-day as being non-Teutonic in 
origin, and much talk of our Germanic relationship may ultimately prove to be 
idle. Craniologically the English commonalty belong in bulk to an earlier and 
probably more primitive race. It would be unprofitable to speculate until we 
have larger series and more complete measurements — especially of Polynesian, 
Melanesian and American Indian crania — on the meaning of the results suggested 
in the present comparison between the denizens of the extreme fringes of enormous 
areas. They give one at least a suggestion of vast folk-wanderings in a world 
possibly of different conformation. Practically they warn us at least to consider 
the problem of the relationship of the American Indian to either a north- Asiatic 
or a Polynesian stock as still unsettled |. Even the English relationship shows 
that the European origin of the American is still a workable hypothesis. We 
have confidence that if our craniological series consisted of hundreds instead of 
often units, statistical methods would enable us to construct a racial human 
* Biometrika, Vol. viii. p. 131. 
I It is in our opinion impossible to accept the views of either Brinton o'- Hale as final. 
