This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...esq. Trans. Odont. Society, 1869. b See Edwards, Des Caracteres Physiologiques des Races Humaines, p. 53. See Keysler, I.c. p. 220, for the stature of the ancient races under comparison, ibique citata. c See Thurnam, op. cit. pp. 40-41. d Lectures on the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion, p. 152, cit. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...esq. Trans. Odont. Society, 1869. b See Edwards, Des Caracteres Physiologiques des Races Humaines, p. 53. See Keysler, I.c. p. 220, for the stature of the ancient races under comparison, ibique citata. c See Thurnam, op. cit. pp. 40-41. d Lectures on the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion, p. 152, cit. Nott and Gliddon, Indigenous Races, pp. 311, 312. coffin interments. An examination of fifty-three of these interments, and a comparison, carried on at great cost of time, of their contents with those of several other cemeteries, has conducted me to the following conclusions as to the tribal characters of the pre-Saxon inhabitants of this district with whom I have had to deal. In the first place, I have not in my excavations at Frilford met with any representatives of the brachycephalic type of ancient Britons so well described by Dr. Thurnam, a and called " Belgic" by Professor Huxley. This is especially noteworthy, as typical examples of this form of cranium have been, through the kindness of the Duke of Marlborough, procured by me for tbe University Museum from the long barrow at Crawley, described by Mr. Akerinan, in the Archceologia, xxxvii. 432, and supposed by him to belong to the same period in time, as it does to much the same district in space, as the Frilford cemetery. Secondly, the longer, narrower, and more vaulted skulls, supposed to have distinguished a race which in England at least took the priority in point of time of the brachycephalic and taller race just mentioned, are, in what I should consider their most typical form, all but equally absent here. That most typical form I should consider as identical with the form regarded as "Belgic " by Retzius, b and spoken of by him as "a Celtic but not the common ...
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