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a marked degree less in ail than in the Indo-European 

 family. The basi-occipital is long and straight ; this inferior 

 character is well marked in A. 



The molar teeth have the characteristic superiority of size 

 of the lower Ethiopic races in A and C, but they are smaller 

 in B; and it is interesting to find this approach to the 

 higher races accompanying the more open facial angle and 

 the fuller oval contour of upper region of the cranium ; 

 the teeth are also less worn, which would lead to the con- 

 jecture that the individual had been of higher rank than A. 



The par-occipital processes (marked with a + in ink) are 

 unusually clearly developed in A and C, on both sides ; when 

 present in Europeans it is a rare anomaly and usually on 

 one side only. It is an interesting manifestation of a cha- 

 racter common in the skulls of brutes, where the par-occipitals 

 generally take the function of the mastoids, and are called 

 mastoid by Cuvier and De Blainville. 



The par-occipital process is to be distinguished from that 

 angle of the occipital which completes the foramen jugulare, 

 and which Bourgery depicts as the " processus jugularis" of 

 the French school of Anthropotomists. 



The superior occipital ridge is well marked in the two 

 male skulls ; in all the supra-occipital swells out behind or 

 beyond that ridge. 



The malar bones are protuberant, and the orbital bound- 

 ary is less sharply defined than in higher races of man- 

 kind, they are more rounded off, which is an approach to 

 the large apes. 



The internal nasal suture is obliterated in A. The gla- 

 bella is prominent in all, but less so than in the Australian 

 skulls, from which likewise the Naloo skulls differ in the 

 larger proportion in which the ali-sphenoid unites with the 

 parietal. 



As in all Ethiopian skulls the cranial sutures are less 

 complex, and more obliterated considering the age of the 

 specimens. Again, however, this character is less marked 

 in the skull B. 



There is a trace of the frontal suture above the nasal 

 bones in C ; and in the female skulls of other races this im- 



