TEANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE, 



1893. 



I. — ZOOLOGY 



Art. I. — Contribution to the Osteology of the Aborigines of 

 Neiu Zealand and of the Chatham Islands. 



By John H. Scott, M.D., Professor of Anatomy in the 

 University of Otago. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 13th June and l^th November, 1893.^ 



Plates I. and II. 



In preparing this paper I have made use not only of the col- 

 lection of bones in the anatomical museum of the University 

 of Otago, but also of those in the Colonial Museum, Welling- 

 ton, and the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, and of such 

 private collections in Dunedin as were, through the kindness 

 of their owners, made available to me. To these gentlemen, 

 and to Sir James Hector and Professor Hutton, I take this 

 opportunity of expressing my great indebtedness. 



Maori Crania. 



As craniometry still suffers from variety of method, I pre- 

 face my description of the crania examined by a statement of 

 the measurements I have adopted. In the main I have followed 

 the directions given by M. Paul Broca,='= but in a few instances 

 I have taken the measurements recommended by other an- 

 thropologists. 



Maxinmm Length. — So that my results may be comparable 

 with those of other observers, I have taken this in three 

 different ways, measuring the greatest length from the 



* " Instructions craniologiques et craniometriques," 1875. 

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