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APPENDIX I. 



Descriptions of Three Skulls of Western Equatorial Africans — Fan, Ashira, 

 and Fernand Vaz — with some Admeasurements of the rest of the 

 Collection of Skulls, transmitted to the British Museum from the 

 Fernand Vaz, by P. B. Du Chaillu. By Professor Owen, F.R.S., &c. 



The pains and skill which M. Du Chaillu has 

 devoted, under most difficult and trying circum- 

 stances, to obtain from the scenes of his explora- 

 tions in Western Equatorial Africa materials for the 

 advancement of natural history, have earned for him 

 the respect and gratitude of every genuine lover 

 and student of the science for its own sake. 



Amongst those specimens which he succeeded in 

 sending down to the coast for embarkation, before his 

 furthest expedition into the interior, which ended, 

 unfortunately for geography, so disastrously, was a 

 collection of upwards of one hundred skulls of natives 

 of Western Equatorial Africa, to which class of objects 

 I had particularly requested his attention before his 

 departure from England on his second journey to the 

 gorilla-country. 



Of this collection, the chief part of which is now 

 in the British Museum, I have taken admeasure- 

 ments of ninety-three skulls, four of the chief of 

 these admeasurements being given in a subjoined 

 table. Of these skulls 1 have also profile views and 



