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2. German Retrospect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

William W. Ireland*
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Comparative Size of Crania of Townspeople and Villagers

Extract

Johann Ranke, of Munich (cited in the “Centralblatt für Nerven-heilkunde,” 1 Juni, 1882), has studied the relative size of the crania of the inhabitants of the town and country, upon a hundred males and a hundred females from villages, and two hundred skulls from the city of Munich. He finds that, though the size and stature of the country people are greater, the cranial capacity is less in both sexes. The mean capacity of 200 skulls of both sexes was

Type
Part III.—Psychological Retrospect
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1883 

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