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groups. These have now absorbed almost all the antecedent population 

 except the Pygmies, and have imposed on the mass of the forest people 

 more or less degraded Bantu dialects, and two other languages, the Lendu 

 and the Mbuba-Momfu, of uncertain affinities, but possibly derived from 

 the same stock as the Madi in the western Nile basin. 



REMARKS ON THE SKELETON OF A BAMBUTE PYGMY FROM 

 THE SEMLIKI FOREST, UGANDA BORDERLAND. 



By FRANK C. SHRUBSALL, M.B., M.B.C.P., 



Fellow of the Anthropological Institute. 



The skeleton of the Bambute Pygmy from the forest zone on the frontier between the 

 Uganda Protectorate 

 and the Congo Free 

 State is of great in- 

 terest owing to the 

 paucity of osteolo- 

 gical material from 

 that district. Up to 

 the present our in- 

 formation is chiefly 

 based on two Akka 

 skeletons sent to the 

 British Museum by 

 Dr. Emin Pasha in 

 1888, and fully de- 

 scribed by the late 

 Sir William Flower 

 in the Journal of 

 the Anthropological 

 Institute, vol. xviii. 

 These skeletons were 

 unfortunately im- 

 perfect, whereas that 

 recently presented to 

 the Museum by Sir 

 H. H. Johnston is 

 practically perfect, 

 a few small bones 

 of the hands and 

 feet alone being 

 missing. Though the 

 Bambute skeleton 

 differs in some de- 

 gree from the Akkas, 

 it is best studied in 

 relation to the for- 

 mer specimens, the 

 details of which are 



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AN MBUTE PYGMY OF THE UPPER IT I HI. 

 WHOSE SKELETON is HERE DES 



THIS 

 CBIBED 



THE INIHVIIH Al. 



