. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . dinavianethnologists now recognize in the primitive history of the north of Europe. . So far as appears from the table of measurements, the following laws would seem tobe indicated : — In the primitive or elongated dolicho-kephalic type, for which the distinc-tive title of kumbe-kephalic is here suggested — the parietal diameter is remarkably small,being frequently exceeded by the vertical diamet
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . dinavianethnologists now recognize in the primitive history of the north of Europe. . So far as appears from the table of measurements, the following laws would seem tobe indicated : — In the primitive or elongated dolicho-kephalic type, for which the distinc-tive title of kumbe-kephalic is here suggested — the parietal diameter is remarkably small,being frequently exceeded by the vertical diameter; in the second or brachy-kephalic class,the parietal diameter is the greater of the two; in the Celtic crania they are nearly equal;and in the medieval or true dolicho-kephalic heads, the parietal diameter is again founddecidedly in excess; while the preponderance or deficiency of the longitudinal in its rela-tive proportion to the other diameters, furnishes the most characteristic features referredto in the classification of the kumbe-kephalic, brachy-kephalic, Celtic, and dolicho-kephalictypes. Not the least interesting indications which these results afford, both to the ethno- 47. No. 10. Old Steeple, Montrose. 370 GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY, logist and the archaeologist, are the evidences of native primitive races in Scotland prior tothe intrusion of the Celtae ; and also the probability of these races having succeeded eachother in a different order from the primitive colonists of Scandinavia. Of the former fact,viz., the existence of primitive races prior to the Celtae, I think no doubt can be now enter-tained. Of the order of their succession, and their exact share in the changes and pro-gressive development of the native arts which the archaeologist detects, we still stand inneed of further proof. . The peculiar characteristic of the primeval Scottish type appears rather to be a narrowprolongation of the occiput in the region of the cerebellum, suggesting the term
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