HUMAN CRANIA. 



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round or oval in outline, is nearly square. The whole head is 

 elongated and depressed along the coronal region, the basis cranii 



AUSTKALIAN (132Y). 



flat, and the mastoid processes very large and roughly formed. 

 The immense orbits are overhung by ponderous superciliary 

 ridges. This latter feature is still more evident in No. 1451 of 

 the Collection, which, though varying somewhat in type, presents 

 in general the same brutal appearance.] 



5. 1328. Native Australian boy, about 16 years old, native of Port 

 St. Philip, at which place he was hanged for murder. I. C. 82. 

 Procured in Calcutta by my friend Dr. Chas. Huffnagle, and by 

 him presented to me, A. D. 1847. 



6. 1261 New Hollander, of a tribe near the Goulbourn settlement : 

 man, aetat. 60. I. C. 81. 



7. 1262, New Hollander, from a tribe of the Goulbourn settlement, 

 killed in an affray with the people of another tribe : woman, aetat. 

 55. I. C. 75. 



The two preceding skulls were sent me by Charles Nicholson, M. !>., 

 of Sydney, in Australia, 1845. See Proceedings of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, for December, 1845. 



1289. Native of New Holland : man, aetat. 60. I. C. 65. From 

 J. W. Wilton, Esq., Gloucester, England, 1846. 

 239. Fragment of the skull of a New Hollander. 

 Australian : man, from Moreton Bay. 

 Australian : woman, from Moreton Bay. 



Oceanic Negroes. 



1. 435. Oceanic Negro, from the Indian Archipelago : woman, 

 aetat. 40. I. C. 77. Dr. Doornik. 



2. 1343; Tasmanian, of Van Diemen's land (?) 

 of the Indian Archipelago ; setat. 35. I. C. 76. 



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 241. 



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