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CATALOGUE OF 



the mastoid processes very great. The face is small and delicate, 

 the nasal bones prominent, the orbits of moderate size, the malar 

 bones flat and delicately rounded, and the zygomatic processes small 

 and slender. The lower jaw is rather small, rounded at the an- 

 gles, and quite acuminated at the symphysis. If classified according 

 to its form, this head would find its place near to, if not between, 

 the Kalmuck and Turkish types.] 



2. 1253. Cast of a Sclavonian head from Morlack, in Dalmatia. 



Nos. 1251 and 1253 from Prof. Eetzius. 



VIII. PELASGIC RACE. 



{Case 2.) 

 1. 1352. Ancient Phenician ? 



I received this highly interesting relic from M. F. Fresnel, the distin- 

 guished French archasologist and traveller, with the following memo- 

 randum, A. D. 1847 : 

 " Crane provenant des caves sepulchrales de Ben-Djemma, dans Tile 

 de Malte. Ce crane parait avoir appartenu a uu individu de la race 

 qui, dans les temps les plus anciens, occupaitla cote septentrionale 

 de I'Afrique, et les iles adjacentes." 



Phenician (1352). 



[This cranium is the one "alluded to in the interestino- anecdote 

 narrated by the late Dr. Patterson, in his graceful memoir as 

 illustrating the wonderful power of discrimination, the tactusvisus 

 acquired by Dr. Morton in his long and critical study of crani- 

 ology.* From this circumstance, and from the many sino-ular and 

 interesting associations inseparably connected with its antiquity, the 

 introduction of the above figure cannot fail to be received with a 



<^ See Types of Mankind, p. xl. 



