SKELETON OF BIMANA. 



565 



mau, in the contracted but almost vertical forehead, continued, 

 ^dtli a very slight prominence of the glabella, to the narroAv flat- 

 tened nasals, and in general shape : the malar bones are equally 

 prominent, and the facial parts of the maxillaries are similarly 

 depressed, but the superorbital ridges are less thickened and less 

 produced. The alisphenoid joins the parietal on both sides of the 

 head. The molars are small or average-sized. The upper border 

 of the squamosals is on a level mth the fronto-malar suture. The 

 superoccipital region rises immediately from the hinder margin of 

 the foramen magnum. 



In a Negro from the Gold Coast, Africa,^ the cranium is large 

 at the parietal protuberances, though narrow at the forehead. 

 The nasal bones are broad and flat, but are continued from the 

 same vertical line as the glabella. The alisphenoids articulate 

 largely with the parietals. The jaws are produced. The molars 

 are not larger than in the White races. The cranial walls are 

 thick in most AYest-Coast Negroes. The uneducated African, 

 like the uneducated European, has a minor cranial capacity than 



Skull of a Green 



the educated African or European, but this becomes a race- 

 character only when, as in the Australians and Tasmanians, all 

 are sunk in barbarism, or none risen above that oldest known 

 state of man. 



In the skull of a Greenlander, figs. 380-382,- the cranium 

 presents an elongate form, with the sides sloping from a median 

 sagittal eminence. The parietal protuberances are feebly de- 

 veloped. The glabella is not very prominent, scarcely produced 

 above the root of the nose : the superorbital ridge is thin and 

 well defined. The nasals are prominent : the upper jaw is pro- 



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2 lb. no. 2479. 



