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Credit: Physiognomy and expression / by Paolo Mantegazza. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the programme traced by Topinard, who, I believe, has not forgotten a single important morphological element—1 [Transverse index. Ridge Direction Form Maximum height Maximum width Maximum prominence | Antero-posterior index. Angle of inclination. 'Rectilinear. Broken or uneven. Convex (aquiline variety). Concave (snub variety). ^Steep. f Curved. I Flat. /Distinct (pinched, trilobed). -] Indistinct. [Passing the nostrils. f Approximate. [Diverging. /Elliptical. Form -! Rounded. f Base Lobe Flanks Nostrils [Special. r, . . , - I Small. Principal axis! L Large. Plan inclined Direction of Sensibly downwards. ,, forwards. ,, backwards. ,, externally, f Antero-posterior. ■ Oblique. uonque. T ransverse. With the aid of this analytical table I was able even to classify the nose of Thiebaut, the elder of the two Akkas of Mikni, the tip of whose nose was lower than the two lobes, while the base was very wide.2 One character omitted in the table is the angle which the root of the nose makes with the forehead. It is very 1 Topinard, “ De la Morphologie du Nez,” Bulletin de la Society Anthrop, 2e. serie, vol. viii., 1873. 2 Mantegazza e Zanetti, / due Akka del Miani. Archivio per l’antrop., etc., tomo iv. p. 137.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2196127x_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
