SKULL SHAPES

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 207, 8 September 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

SKULL SHAPES

Tlio "Prussian head," with its ai leged small occiput, is familiar to every one. Rightly or wrongly, a good deal has also been built 011 the consistence of the Scottish head and oven on its liape. It may conic, therefore, as a surprise (wr'tcs a medical correspond ent of the "Times") to learn that an extensive investigation curried out on some 700 skulls from a disused Clydeside graveyard reVa'ls the fact that tlu?se are in all essentials identical with the English type oi skull as defined by examination of a cemetery in the End of London twelve veins ago n'y Dr. W. R. Macdonell. Tho Scottish investigation was carried out by Dr. Young, of the Anatomical Department of Glasgow I'liiverMty, who states that "Scottish skulls presented an exceedingly close resemblance in their genial tonn to "the seres it' skulls described by Macdonnell and known as the Whitechapel English < ranin, which the latter regards as the typical skull sf the Londoner of 2(K) years ago." Coiniiii-nt ng iipon the disiovery. the " Br : tjJ» Medical Journal" says"The dig into the physical churac,Seoitish, Welsh. more do anconvinced that all four nationalities are compounded out of exactly tho same racial stocks ot mankind."