. The history of mankind . Queensland girl. (From a photograph by C. Günther. Australian race has turned up, it has been found impossible to adduce any con-vincing proofs of it. We should most naturally expect a solution of this question from careful skullmeasurements, but what do these tell us ? The Australian head is one of thesmallest, but within these limits the variations are great. If we rely upon thetwenty-four skulls measured by Davis, and the eighteen measured by Topinard,the horizontal circumference varies between 19 and 22 inches, and the cubiccontents of the skull between 66 and 8
. The history of mankind . Queensland girl. (From a photograph by C. Günther. Australian race has turned up, it has been found impossible to adduce any con-vincing proofs of it. We should most naturally expect a solution of this question from careful skullmeasurements, but what do these tell us ? The Australian head is one of thesmallest, but within these limits the variations are great. If we rely upon thetwenty-four skulls measured by Davis, and the eighteen measured by Topinard,the horizontal circumference varies between 19 and 22 inches, and the cubiccontents of the skull between 66 and 8 8 cubic inches. Davis even records ameasurement of 102 cubic inches. The marked prognathy, the projecting eyebrows,the depression of the root of the nose, and the retreating forehead, Topinard failedto notice in five or six skulls out of eighteen. The roof-shaped skull which someanatomists have noticed as characteristic is anything but universal ; it is absent inmore than half of Topinards list of skulls. With differences
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