. Cruise of the revenue steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic ocean in 1881 ... Notes and memoranda .. . ^,. In none of the skulls of the collection is there observable tlie heavy superciliary ridges allegedto be common in lower races, but which exist in many of the best-formed European crania—shallwe say as anomalies or as individual variations? Nor is the convexity of the scjuamoparietalsuture such as characterizes the low-typed cranium of the chimpanzee or of the Mound tlie contrary, the orbits are cleanly made and the suture is well curved. Besides, a low deg
. Cruise of the revenue steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic ocean in 1881 ... Notes and memoranda .. . ^,. In none of the skulls of the collection is there observable tlie heavy superciliary ridges allegedto be common in lower races, but which exist in many of the best-formed European crania—shallwe say as anomalies or as individual variations? Nor is the convexity of the scjuamoparietalsuture such as characterizes the low-typed cranium of the chimpanzee or of the Mound tlie contrary, the orbits are cleanly made and the suture is well curved. Besides, a low degreeof intelligence is not shown by observing the index of tlie foramen magnum, which is about thesame as that found in European crania; and the same may be said of the internal capacity of thecranium. To illustrate the latter remark is appended a tabular statement made up from Welcker,Broca, Aitken, and Meigs: Ciibiu Australian Polynesian Hottentot Mexican Malay Ancient coiitiiiifters. 1,2301,2301,2961, 3281,301 French .- 1,403 to l,4(il German _ 1, 44m Kn^lisli ._ 1,572 An average of the Eskimo skulls, some o
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