. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. Dolichocephalic Cranium of European (From a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College oj Surgeons.) of the latter in fig. 819.* ; the first of these skulls would certainly be placed, if the dimen- * Of these and most of the other figures of crania illustrating this article, the author would remark that, although every pains has been taken by the artist it has been found impossible to express adequately on a small scale some of those nicer features of distinction, which are obvious enough in. the skulls themselves. Cran
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. Dolichocephalic Cranium of European (From a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College oj Surgeons.) of the latter in fig. 819.* ; the first of these skulls would certainly be placed, if the dimen- * Of these and most of the other figures of crania illustrating this article, the author would remark that, although every pains has been taken by the artist it has been found impossible to express adequately on a small scale some of those nicer features of distinction, which are obvious enough in. the skulls themselves. Cranium of Esquimaux. (From a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.) to a form in which there is at least as great an admixture of the prognathous (fig. 822); whilst among the Chinese and other civilised nations of South-eastern Asia, we find so close an approximation to the oval type, that individuals are not unfrequently met with amongst them, whose skulls might be taken for those of Europeans.* So, again, if we * Such was the case, for example, with the Chinese skull, whose measurements are given by Professor Van der Hoeven (op. cit.); for in every one of its dimensions it varied less from the aver-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Todd, Robert Bentley, 1809-1860. London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper
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