40 Dr Richard Ciill's Remarks on 



logical appearances exclusively to the agency of slow and 

 ordinary causes, he would have been asked to explain the 

 position of fragments of granite, like those of Scandinavian 

 origin, on the plains of Pomerania, or of protogene from 

 Mont Blanc lodged on the summit of the Jura, and such an 

 appeal in refutation of a theory apparently so visionary must 

 have been triumphant. 



But it is now time to conclude ; and in taking leave of you, 

 Gentlemen, I will venture to indulge the hope, that on some 

 future occasion I may resume this theoretical discussion, 

 which ought to embrace every department of geological in- 

 quiry, including that of palaeontology, to which as yet I have 

 been able to make but a few passing allusions. 



JRemarks on Three Naloo Negro Skulls. By RiCHARD CuLL, 

 Fellow of the Ethnological Society * 



It is with considerable diffidence that I venture, at the 

 request of our most zealous secretary, Dr King, to offer some 

 remarks on the three Naloo negro skulls lying on the table. 



The complete ossification of the cranial bones, the partial 

 obliteration of the sutures, the ossific junction of the styloid 

 process to the temporal bone, and the full development of 

 the teeth, concur to indicate the mature age of the indi- 

 viduals to whom the skulls belonged. But the unworn 

 condition of the teeth forbids us to infer that they were aged. 



The skulls are marked A, B, and C, respectively. Those 

 marked A and B are the skulls of men. The smaller malar 

 bones, the more slender zygomata, together with the lesser 

 development of those processes to which the powerful 

 muscles are attached, would lead to the inference that the 

 skull marked C is that of a woman, but Mr Whitfield knows 

 it to be that of a man who fell in battle. The jaws project 

 forward, especially in A, and least so in C. The malar bones 

 do not appear to be laterally protuberant, but the zygomata 

 are very much so, especially in A and C, where they are 

 very convex. 



In all three crania the sutures are less complex and more 

 obliterated than in Europeans, especially in A and C. In all 



* Kead before the Society, 25th April 1849. 



