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 28o CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. The number of skulls in the Museum of the University of Athens, from this epoch to the classical period, is very large, also the number of those from the Roman and from the Christian periods. Among the ancient skulls there are series from Eretria, Corinth, and Boeotia (Thes- pia, Chorsia, and Tanagra). Of the more recent periods, there are series of skulls from Thessaly, Naxos, Amorgos, Attica, ^gina, and Megara. Dr. Stephanos takes the measurements accord- ing to the adopted international method, but be- sides he records according to his own method, which gives the best results. As much as possi- ble descriptive terms are avoided ; the measure- ments alone, as a rule, are presented to demon- strate the characteristics. These measurements, as they are written down according to both methods for each skull, show quite an extensive amount of work. While speaking of measurements, I will state here that Dr. Stephanos has measured more than ten thousand heads of Greek recruits. The re- sults of these measurements are demonstrated on a cephalometric map. On this map the ad- ministrative divisions are ignored, since they are often completely neutralized by the result of anthropological researches. Thus, for instance,