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cephalic, from 81 '1 to 87 '9. Prof. Virchow has also described 1 four skulls sent 
by Dr. Burmeister from the north side of the Rio Negro, two of which w r ere deformed 
and two normal. Of the latter, one had a cephalic index of 77 '4, the other of 70*3; 
the mean of the two being 73*85, which is almost the same as the much larger series 
collected by M. Moreno. Hence, it is clear that before the European colonisation of 
Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8. — Occipital, vertical, lateral, and facial aspects of Patagonian Skull from near the river Chirp a. 
South America a people with dolichocephalic heads inhabited that part of the continent 
which we now* call Patagonia. 
The single skull marked Patagonian brought home by the Challenger does not afford 
me sufficient material upon which to base any conclusion as to the cranial characters of the 
modern Patagonians. It is indeed open to some doubt if this be a genuine Patagonian, 
as in its general form and in some of its measurements it so closely resembled the Fuegian 
1 Communication made to Berliner Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie (Zeitschrift fur Ethnologic, Bd. vi. p. 51, 1874). 
