Page [130], line 2.—This has been verified while these sheets were passing through the press by the discovery of Brit-Welsh articles in a cave in Kirkcudbrightshire by Messrs. A. R. Hunt and A. J. Corrie, among which are bone fasteners similar in outline to that from the Victoria Cave ([Fig. 23]).
Page [190].—In using this classification of crania, I have purposely attached higher value to the two extremes of skull form, or the long and the broad, than to the intermediate oval forms, which cannot be viewed as distinctive of race, because they may be the results either of the intermarriage of a long-headed with a short-headed people, or of variation from the type of one or other of them.
Page [196], heading, for “Dolicho-cepha” read “Dolicho-cephali.”
Page [201], heading, dele “A”.
Page [213], note 2.—The “tête annulaire,” or annular depression, is also visible on some of the broad as well as the long skulls from a “Merovingian” cemetery at Chelles in the same collection. The association in this cemetery of the two skull-forms is probably due to the Merovingians being the masters, and the Celts the servants, and the conquerors and the vanquished being buried in the same spot.
Page [220], line 24, for “Volscæ” read “Volcæ.”
Page [223], line 25, for “east” read “west.”
Page [228], line 3, dele “that.”
Page [229], line 3, for “set foot” read “settled.” The statement in the text is too strong. The conquest of Gaul by the Huns under Attila was averted by his defeat in the famous battle of Chalons.
Page [275], line 21, for “are” read “is.”