A contribution to the study of the growth of the face in childhood

1. The Wrest Scottish male skull resembles the British Iron Age type more closely than any of the other British types with which it has been compared including Morant's Lowland Scottish group.2. The relative degree of divergence between the West Scottish and the 17th century Londoners from Whitechapel is identical with that shown between the West Scottish and the Lowland Scottish types.3. The 17th century Londoners from Farringdon Street are distinctly less closely related to the West Scottish than are the Londoners of the same period from Whitechapel.4. The relative degree of divergence of the West Scottish from the the Anglo -Saxon and /Neolithic types is notably greater than that from the Farringdon Street Londoners.5. In the female groups the order of relative divergence from the West Scottish does not accord exactly with that shown in the males. The Whitechapel females resemble the West Scottish most closely and the Lowland Scottish and Iron Age types are rather more divergent from it: the remaining groups follow the sequence shown in the male.6.The close affinity between the modern West Scottish type,as illustrated by the collection in Glasgow, and the British Iron Age type,as described by Morant, lends support, so far as regards this group at least, to Morant's conclusion that the modern population of the greater part of Scotland is directly descended from the Iron Age type which has not been essentially modified since its first appearance.7. The relatively close relationship shown to exist between the West Scottish type from Glasgow and the 17th century Londoners from Whitechapel is of great interest. During the survey - of the Scottish skulls it was noted that a considerable proportion of them had the low retreating forehead and the comparatively low cranial vault which have been described as prominent features of these Londoners