d facial
angle are exhibited in the following table:

White. Mulatto. Black.

Circumference of head 22.1 inches. 22.0 inches. 21.9 inches.
Facial angle 72.0 deg. 69.2 deg. 68.8 deg.

A difference of one-tenth of an inch in head circumference and of
four-tenths of a degree in facial angle affords a very slender physical
basis on which to predicate intellectual superiority.

The author lays great stress upon the following table made out by Dr.
Hunt.

_Weight of the Brain of White and Colored Soldiers_.[42]

No. of cases. Degree of color. Weight of brain.

24 White 1424 grammes.
25 Three parts white 1390 "
47 Half white 1334 "
51 One-fourth white 1319 "
95 One-eighth white 1308 "
22 One-sixteenth white 1280 "
141 Pure Negro 1341 "

Twenty-four cases are taken to represent fifty million people, and the
law of averages thus obtained is confidently relied upon. Nor are we
informed as to what methods were employed to ascertain the exact
composition of blood of the 22 cases that are rated as one-sixteenth
white. But, supposing we accept this table, overlooking for the time
being the fact that the brain weight of one white person is taken as
typical of two million others, and also conceding the undisclosed method
of Dr. Hunt in detecting homeopathic dashes of white blood, does it
"clearly prove that there is an increase in the brain weight with an
increase in the proportion of white blood?" If this table shows anything
it is that the pure Negro and the Mulatto have about the same brain
weight and that they are both superior in this respect to all degrees of
mixture between them, but inferior to those of more than one-half white
blood.

But it is rather unusual at this late day to base intellectual capacity
upon the shape and size of skull. Investigations have shown that facial
angle and capacity of cranium and cephalic index afford no certain
criterion of thought power or susceptibility to culture. The latest word
on this subject is given by Prof. Ripley, in a series of articles on
"Racial Geography of Europe," in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly for
1897.

"An important point to be noted in this connection is that this shape of
the head seems to be