BRITISH ALL ONE PEOPLE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 14 September 1916, Page 5

BRITISH ALL ONE PEOPLE.

The ‘‘Prussian head,” with its alleged small occipupt, is familiar to everyone. Rightly or wrongly, a good deal has been built on that headshape, and a good deal has been built on the consistence of the Scottish head —and even a little on its shape. It may come therefore as a surprise (Avrites a medical correspondent of the Times) to learn that an extensi\'e investigation carried out on some 700 skulls from a graveyard, reveals the facrthfe&e|4;&^i n all essentials identical with the Jtype* of > »% /s i.JA - a g $ $ kkvtlll«a& ■defined by examination M a n -It'- 'V - ,l ' ■ cemetery in the East End of London twelve ; years ago by Dr W. R. Maedopgll,-, .vied ytove t-'t re • i t-'«!*• i The Scottish , investigation ■ was carried, out by Dr Young, of the Anatomical Department of GJasgorv University, who states that Scottish skulls presented ah exceedingly close resemblance in tlieir general form to the series of -‘skulls described by Maedonell and knoAvn as the' Whitechapel crania, A\ Hii4i L dhe latter, regards as the typical skUlf (if the Londoner of 20000 years ago. Commenting" oh “the discovery, the 'Btitiiai. Medical" Journal more we digAhto'the physical charac'tefs’’ : 6 : f ,! %e English, ■ Scottish, n! Welsh, and Irish peoples the more do anthropologists become convinced that all four nationalities are compounded out of the same racial stocks of mankind.