Archive image from page 541 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 Cranium of Aboriginal Australian. (From a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.) than in that already described (fig. 808.) ; and in the skull of the Tahitian (Jig. 825), with about the same amount of prognathism, there Fig. 825. Cranium of a Tnhitian. (From a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.) is a considerably less degree of antero- posterior elongation ; in both these skulls, age of European skulls, than the la
Archive image from page 541 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 Cranium of Aboriginal Australian. (From a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.) than in that already described (fig. 808.) ; and in the skull of the Tahitian (Jig. 825), with about the same amount of prognathism, there Fig. 825. Cranium of a Tnhitian. (From a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.) is a considerably less degree of antero- posterior elongation ; in both these skulls, age of European skulls, than the latter varied from each other. moreover, the upper part of the face, when seen in front, shows a decidedly pyramidal tendency. So, again, the Greenlanders are ranked by Professor Retzius among his Doli- chocephahe prognathcc, along with the Negroes and Australians, although the upper part of the face is often most characteristically pyra- midal ; and even the Brachyccphalic Tartars and Kalmuks are reckoned by him suffi- ciently prognathous to be separated from the Finns, Lapps, Turks, £c. These facts, to which many more might be added, should be sufficient to convince every philosophic naturalist, who duly estimates what is required for the establishment of spe- cific distinctions, that none such can be laid down among the different races of mankind, upon the foundation of cranial conformation alone. Those ethnologists who hold the doctrine of originally distinct stocks, which (they maintain) have continued to preserve their characteristic features through succes- sive generations, have been obliged to admit, not three or five varieties of cranial conform-
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