[244] If allowance is made for the effects of flattening of the occipital on the long diameter, and hence on the index, of a skull, it becomes apparent that the true index of this skull is probably of a low brachycephalic, or, at most, of mesocephalic order. It is very doubtful if the deformity is intentional; its moderate extent and the total lack of signs of counter-compression would indicate with more probability that the deformity might have been produced by the individual lying, when an infant, by compulsion or habit, on something hard, probably a board.
[245] The “biauricular” signifies the distance between points of the skull immediately above the commencement of the superior zygomatic border on the temporal.
[246] Quain, Anatomy, 1893: Osteology, p. 127.
[247] Hovelacque et Hervé, Précis d’Anthropologie, 1887, pp. 112, 2937.
[248] Bulletin de la Société d’Anthropologie, 1868.
[249] Hovelacque et Hervé, op. cit., p. 113.
[250] Histoire Naturelle des Races Humaines, 1826, p. 304.
[251] Hovelacque et Hervé, op. cit., p. 291.
[252] The term Amerind (with the self-explanatory mutations Amerindian, Amerindize, etc.) has been established by the Anthropological Society of Washington as a convenient collective designation for the aboriginal American tribes (American Anthropologist, new series, 1, 1899, p. 582).
[253] Defined postea, p. 188.