Page:American Journal of Sociology Volume 8.djvu/815

 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY 79$

Prehistoric skulls of Canstadt - 1,200 c.c.

Peruvians - - 1,234

Oceanic negroes - - 1,234

Nubians - 1,324

Mexicans - - 1,339

Australians - - 1.339

Negroes of western Africa - - 1,347

Lapps - 1,440

Tasmanians - 1,452

Kanackas - 1,470

Irish - - 1,472

Inhabitants of modern Brussels 1,490

Dutch - 1,496

Swedes - 1,500

Eskimos - - 1,539

Guanches i>554

Modern Parisians - 1,558

Basques and Auvergnats - - 1,598

According to Bertillon, the cubage of the Lapps is explained by the abundance of gross marrow and the small quantity of gray cells. The same is probably true for the Eskimos. It is necessary also to take account of the numerical insufficiency of the measures taken. An exact and complete hierarchical classi- fication based upon such simple data can no longer be satisfac- tory. It ought to take account, not only of those factors which we have indicated above, but also of other, more qualitative fac- tors, such as the complexity of the cerebral convolutions, the proportion of gray matter, the development of the superior cen- ters, etc.

In this connection it is interesting to note the weight of the brain in relation to the cranial capacity with regard to race and sex: 1

Male Female

English and Scotch - 1,427 1,260

French - I >334 1,210

German - - 1,382 1,209-1,244

Austrians - 1,342 1,160

Negroes of Africa - - 1,238-1,316 1,067-1,232

One negro of the Cape 974

One Australian 907

One Bushman - 872

The gorilla (Huxley and Topinard) 475-567

The brain of Cuvier - 1,830

1 TOPINARD, Anthropologie, pp. 336, 337.