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30-5-35 mm., and Slniibsall's series of eight ]iuslimen and 

 strandloopers ranged from 32-37 mm. The fossil Mauer jaw 

 has a least breadth of 50-52 mm., whilst that of average 

 Gernmns is said to he only 27 or 28 mm. The sigmoid notch 

 is also lemarkably shallow in this specimen, with very- low 

 coronoid process, and another very noticeable feature is the 

 strongly everted angle, which again is Bush character in 

 exaggerated form. The chin is quite distinct, and the lower 

 jaw projects in front beyond the upper. The mandible as a; 

 whole is slender and light. 



The measurements are as follows : — 

 Cranial capacity, 1415 c.c. 

 Basi-bregmatic height, 130'5 mm. 

 Maximum breadth, 139 mm. 

 Bi-maxillary breadth, 108 mm. 

 Maximum glabello-occipital length, 192 mm. 

 Bizygomatic breadth, 144 mm, (This is noticeably 



great.) 

 JN^aso-alveolar height, G9 (circa). 

 Orbital height, 32 mm. 

 Orbital breadth, 42 mm. 

 Basi-alveolar length, 108 (circa). 

 Basi-nasal length, 1085 mm. 

 Height of ramus of mandible, 44 mm. 

 Bi-condyloid breadth, 122 mm. 



Thus, in terms of physical anthropology, it is dolicho- 

 cephalic (72'4), chamaecephalic (68), mesognathous (99'5), 

 metriocephalio (94), chamaeprosopic (48) and microseme (70). 



On a flat table, this skull rests posteriorly on the mastoids, 

 the cerebellar part of the occipital bone and the condyle being- 

 well raised up. 



I cannot pretend to assign this solitary specimen with 

 certainty to his proper place in the system. There is without 

 doubt a strong strain of the San race, but if the pure type of 

 that race is the strandlooper described by Dr. Shrubsall, some 

 other elements must be intermingled, judging- from such 

 characters as the length and shape of the skull, the weak 

 forehead, and the size of the mastoids. It agrees with typical 

 strandloopers rather than with Hottentots — as understood by 

 Shrubsall — in the chamaecephalic skull, the broad rectangular 

 orbits, and the very broad cliamaeprosopic face. 



We have no other example quite like the above, but con- 

 siderably resembling' it in the shape of the cranium is a badly 

 broken skull from the sand-hills. Port Alfred. The length is 

 203 mm. There is the same occipital protuberance; parietal 

 eminences fairly distinct; broAV ridges moderate, temporal 

 ridges weak ; nasals considerably flattened ; face and eye- 

 sockets not so broad, and cheek bones not so strongly 

 projecting as in the above example, and very little subnasal 

 prognathism ; a sliarp rima borders the nasal opening, which 

 is not broad. The mandible is lacking, unfortunately. Partly 

 owing to the bulging occiput, this skull is longer than any in 



