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other hand one measurer using the same method soon obtained practically identical 
results in making re-measurements, and even one measuring in three different ways. 
If the reader will merely look at the Table XX. which follows, giving the 
capacity and chief dimensions of the skull for a number of races, he will easily 
convince liimself that the differences in capacity must be largely due to the 
differences of personal equation and of method and not to the thicknesses of bone 
in the crania. Take the French (P) skulls ; they are not decisively the largest in the 
series and yet they are credited with capacities which easily head the list. For relative 
purposes it is almost impossible to credit different series with a correctness within 
30 cubic centims. of the true value. Hence such deviations as we find in the second 
column of Table XIX. seem well within the ol)servational accuracy attainable, and 
I think it quite j^ossihle that if we had some further large series of L, B, H, and C, 
determined by careful observers, we should have a fonnula giving more trustworthy 
results for the mean capacity than could be obtained by the direct measurement ot 
an individual observer. The averaging of a number of series would tend to eliminate 
the large personal equations which I feel sure exist in measurements of this kind. 
Table XX. — General Table of Skull-dimensions for divers Paces. 
Race. 
Number. 
Sex. 
L. 
B. 
H. 
H'. 
C. 
Aino. 
76 
185 
82 
141 
•23 
119 
32 
139 
50 
1462 
Malay!. 
76 
d 
174 
3.3 
142 
•36 
116 
88 
140 
68 
1430 
Negro* * * § . 
54 
d 
185 
04 
135 
20 
rii5 
17?]§ 
75 
134 
77 
1430 
Bavarian. 
100 
d 
180 
58 
150 
47 
120 
133 
78 
1503 
Badenserf . 
78 
d 
181 
50 
148 
60 
113 
40 
132 
50 
1525 
French (M)|. 
56 
d 
179 
96 
143 
41 
112 
86 
128 
95 
1473 
French (P)*. 
77 
d 
182 
69 
145 
22 
[117 
71d§ 
132 
01 
1560 
Egyptians, ancient! . . 
201 
d 
181 
83 
137 
14 
114 
28 
135 
94 
1390 
Egyptians, modern! . . 
76 
d 
179 
11 
136 
51 
115 
42 
137 
50 
1355 
Naqada. 
69 
d 
185 
13 
134 
87 
115 
59 
135 
21 
1387 
Etruscans! . 
78 
d 
182 
88 
143 
53 
115 
90 
139 
20 
1456 
Aino. 
52 
$ 
177 
17 
136 
79 
114 
97 
135 
10 
1308 
Negro*. 
2.3 
? 
174 
52 
130 
52 
[106 
5iq§ 
126 
91 
1256 
Bavarian. 
100 
? 
173 
59 
144 
11 
114 
17 
128 
01 
1337 
Badenser!. 
45 
? 
172 
20 
141 
30 
107 
70 
124 
90 
1339 
French (P)* . 
41 
? 
174 
34 
135 
49 
[112 
101 ]§ 
125 
10 
1338 : 
Egyptians, ancient! . . 
96 
? 
175 
92 
134 
16 
110 
25 
130 
64 
1254 
Egyjrtians, modern! . . 
23 
? 
175 
04 
131 
00 
107 
65 
130 
81 
1196 
Naqada . 
98 
? 
177 
48 
131 
61 
113 
11 
129 
55 
1279 , 
Etruscans! . 
:38 
? 
177 
47 
138 
•81 
111 
34 
133 
71 
1324 j 
* Extracted for Profe.ssor Pearson from Broca’.s manuscript registers at Paris, by the courtesy of 
M. Manouvrier. 
t From the German Antliropological Catalogue. 
I Shulls of French prisoners who died in Munich during the Franco-German war. (German Anthropo¬ 
logical Catalogue.) 
§ Rough estimate, as data were wanting. 
