Studies in Irish craniology (Aran Islands, Co. Galway) : a paper read before the Royal Irish Academy, December 12, 1892 / by A.C. Haddon.

  • Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940.
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1893
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    XXXVIII. STUDIES IN lEISH CKANIOLOGY: THE ARAN ISLANDS, CO. GALWAY.* By PROFESSOR A. C. HADDON. [Eead December 12, 1892.] The following is the first of a series of communications which I pro- pose to make to the Academy on Irish Craniology. It is a remarkable fact that there is scarcely an obscure people on the face of the globe about whom we have less anthropographical information than we have of the Irish. Three skulls from Ireland are described by Davis and Thumam in the “Crania Britannica” (1856-65); six by J. Aitken Meigs in his ‘ ‘ Catalogue of Human Crania in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ” (1857); two by J. Van der Hoeven in his “ Catalogus craniorum diversarum gentium” (1860); thirty- eight (more or less fragmentary), and five casts by J. Barnard Davis in the “Thesaurus craniorum” (1867), besides a few others which I shall refer to on a future occasion. Quite recently Dr. W. Frazer has measured a number of Irish skulls. “ A Contribution to Irish Anthropology,” Jour. Roy. Soc. Antiquarians of Ireland, I. (5), 1891, p. 391. In addition to three skuUs from Derry, Dundalk, and Mary’s Abbey, Dublin, Dr. Frazer gives measurements of fifty more or less broken crania from Donny- brook, Co. Dublin, which were the best preserved of the skulls of over 600 human beings who were there massacred about the year 800 a.d.‘ Strangely enough the pioneer investigator of the craniology of 1 Since the present Paper was written, Dr. Frazer has read before the Academy a short Paper entitled “ On Irish Crania; ” read January 23, 1893 {antea, p. 643). And still later, February 27, 1893, Dr. C. E. Browne read a Paper “On some Crania from Tipperary,” in which he describes the crania of individuals [anlea, p. 643).