Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1881 — Skull Measurements. [ARTICLE]

Skull Measurements.

Prof. Fiower, the well-known English anatomist, states that the largest normal skull he ever measured was as much a* 2,075 cubic centimeters, the smallest 960 cubic centimeters, this belonging to one of those peculiar people in the center of Ceylon who are now nearly extinct. The largest average capacity of any human head he has measured is that of a race of long, flatheaded people on the west coast of Africa. The Laplanders and Esquimaux, though a very small people, have very large skulls, the latter giving an average measurement of 1,546. The English skull, of the lower grades, shows 1,542; the Japanese, 1,486; Chinese, 1,424; modem Italian, 1,475; ancjtqit Egyptian, 1,464; Hindoos, 1,306,