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THE first part of a catalogue of human crania in the United States National Museum was issued in 1924. It gave measurements of four short series from parts of Alaska. Since then the Smithsonian Institution has sent eighteen anthropological expeditions to the country, and the United States National Museum now has 2,200 Eskimo skulls, many of which are accompanied by the rest of the skeleton. The latest part of the catalogue to be issued* provides individual measurements of the whole collection of skulls, including a number for which data had been published previously. Dr. Hrdlička, the doyen of American physical anthropologists, has thus made another substantial contribution to the long list of his achievements in collecting, describing and analysing the material of his science.
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MORANT, G. ESKIMO CRANIOLOGY. Nature 151, 59–60 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151059b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151059b0