Eveline Y. Thomson 127 
Moriofi Auricular Height OH. 
Male 
Female 
No. 
Value 
No. 
Value 
Measured 
on 
Craniophor 
34 
117-5 
22 
115-1 
Measured 
on 
Transverse Contour 
33 
109-5 
21 
108-8 
Measured 
on 
Sagittal Contour 
33 
116-5 
21 
112-4 
Let us examine similar data for other races : 
Male Auricular Height OH. 
Race. . . 
Englisli 
E-vptian,XXVI 
-XXX Dyn. 
Congo, Batetelu 
Gaboon, Bantu 
No. 
Value 
No. 
Value 
No. 
Value 
No. 
Value 
Measured on Craniophor... 
135 
114-6 
100 
113-G 
47 
113-9 
V 
Measured on Transverse 
Contour 
100 
111-5 
100 
110-2 
41 
112-0 
50 
113-6 
It will be seen that there is not much comparative material, but in all cases 
the craniophor auricular height is in excess of the transverse contour height. 
Dr Benington was more successful than I have been in making his type transverse 
contour approach the auricular height of the craniophor measurement*, but even 
he may be 2 to 5 mm. in defect. My determinations from the sagittal contour are 
in better agreement with my craniophor measurements, but may be 2 to 3 mm. 
divergent, while the transverse contour differs by 6 to 8 mm. I attribute these 
big differences to the very different manner in which the auricular point is deter- 
mined (i) when the skull is on the craniophor, (ii) when it is orientated by auricular 
points and apex, (iii) when it is orientated by nasion, bregma and lambda. In 
the latter case in particular there is no certainty that the auricular line is per- 
pendicular to the plane of the paper. In (ii) the auricular point is reached by 
a stile arriving from the apex, in (iii) by a stile adjusted from the basal side of 
the orientated skull, and there is far more personal equation in its determination 
than may be at once realised. It is clear, I think, that determinations of the 
auricular height from the transverse type contour are of small value. But I 
doubt very much whether the auricular height as found on the Ranke craniophor 
accords well with the definition of the Frankfurt concordat, or indeed whether 
* It is possible that the top of the auricular passage is less nearly horizontal in the case of the 
Moriori than in the races which Dr Benington dealt with. 
