Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.

  • Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    TABLE, Showing the Size of the Brain in cubic inches, as obtained from the measure- ment of 623 Crania of various Races and Families of Man. KACES AND FAMILIES. MODERN CAUCASIAN GROUP. Teutonic Family. Germans, English, Anglo-Americans, Pelasgic Family. Persians, Armenians, Circassians, Celtic Family. Native Irish, Indostanic Family. Bengalees, fyc. Semitic Family. Arabs, Nilotic Family. Fellahs, ANCIENT CAUCASIAN GROUP. S 8 u Pelasgic Family. Grceco -Egyptians, j Nilotic Family. (_ Egyptians, MONGOLIAN GROUP. Chinese Family. MALAY GROUP. Malayan Family. Polynesian Family. AMERICAN GROUP. Toltecan Family. Peruvians, Mexicans, Barbarous Tribes. Iroquois, Lenape, Cherokee, Shoshone, fyc. No. of Skulls. NEGRO GROUP. Native African Family. American-born Negroes. Hottentot Family. Alforian Family. Australians, IS 5 7 10 6 32 3 17 IS \.m 20 3 155 22 }>161 62 12 3 Largest I.C. 114 105 97 94 97 91 98 96 97 96 97 84 101 92 104 89 83 83 Smallest Mean. I. C. 70 91 82 75 78 67 84 66 74 70 68 82 58 67 70 65 73 68 63 90 96 90 84 87 80 89 SO 80 82 86 83 75 79 84 83 82 75 75 Mean. 92 ■85 79 83