HUMAN CRANIA. 95 



rated ; malar bones laterally prominent. This latter feature, in 

 conjunction with the double inclination of the os frontis, gives to 

 the head a pyramidal form. The superior maxilla is distinctly 

 everted at the alveolar margin. Another head of the same tribe 

 is longer and narrower, and, in consequence of the flatness of the 

 malar bones, has less of the pyramidal form. The calvaria of a 

 Pessah skull (No. 1095) is oblong in figure ; the forehead flat, 

 and receding ; superciliary ridges ponderous ; malar bones large 

 and flat; upper jaw everted; lower jaw retracted, occiput pro- 

 tuberant. In a Kroo head (No. 1098), I find the forehead broad 

 and high ; the calvaria regularly arched, and having its greatest 

 diameter between the anterior and inferior parts of the parietalia ; 

 the occipital region flat and shelving downwards and forwards to 

 a small foramen magnum ; mastoid processes large ; face very 

 broad ; malar bones shelving slightly like those of the Eskimo ; 

 inter-orbital space very large; upper jaw slightly everted ; teeth 

 rather small, and vertical ; zygomatic fossae deep. In another 

 Kroo skull, the vertex is flat, the forehead recedent, and the jaws 

 more prognathous. The calvaria of a Dey skull is narrow in front 

 and broad posteriorly, with a flat vertex ; face small, regular, and 

 compact, and, were it not for the projection of the superior alve- 

 olus, might be considered as almost European. The skull of an 

 Eboe (No. 1102), presents characters similar to those just de- 

 tailed. It is chiefly remarkable for the great obliquity of the 

 orbital opening, and the unusual smallness of the mastoid pro- 

 cesses.] 



82. 1224. Congo Negro ; a young native. Remarkable for the ab- 

 sence of the coronal, sagittal and lambdoidal sutures. Dr. David 

 Gilbert, 1844. 



83. 1107. Hottentot: woman, setat. 35. F. A. 75. I. C. 68. 



84. 1244. Hottentot : woman, setat. 40. I. C. 75. 



85. 1351. Hottentot : woman, aetat. 25. I. C. 83. 



The above three Hottentot skulls were sent me by Mr. John Watson, 

 of Cape Town, through Dr. Gavin Watson, 1845-8. 



86. 1358. Kaffeb skull : man, aetat. 50. I. C. 80. From Mr. John 

 Watson, through Dr. G. Watson. 



87. 1360. Cast of a Kaffer skull. Prof. Retzius. 



88. 238. Cast of the skull of a Bosjie woman. Presented by Mr. 

 Harlan. 



[The three Hottentot heads are long, compressed anteriorly; fore- 

 heads low ; the whole face small and prognathous, the slope, from 



