444 SKULLS OF WESTERN AFEICANS. Ait. I. 



of" an European of similar general proportions, as to 

 length and breadth, shows more of the elliptical, less 

 of the oval, character of horizontal contour ; the 

 European skull being wider, as usual, at the parietal 

 bosses. The larger brain of the European has been 

 accompanied also with greater height and breadth 

 and forward convexity of the forehead, more pro- 

 tuberant sides of the cranium below the temporal 

 ridge, and a nearer approach to the horizontal plane 

 of the part of the occiput between the great foramen 

 and the upper curved ridge. The more produced 

 and longer nasals, the less produced and more vertical 

 incisive alveoli, the less prominent malars, also dis- 

 tinguish the skull compared, as they do the majority 

 of modern European skulls, from those of Africans. 



The next skull which I have selected for the pho- 

 tographer is that (No. 57) of a male of the Fan, or 

 cannibal race of Western Equatorial Africa, figs. 

 4, 5, and 6. It has belonged to a larger and 

 more powerful individual than the former skull. 

 The forehead rises higher, the parietal protuberances 

 are more prominent, as is the sagittal region from 

 which the parietals more decidedly slope towards the 

 temporal ridges. The lambdoid, mast-occipital, masto- 

 parietal, squamous, squamo-sphenoid, spheno-frontal, 

 and spheno-malar sutures remain ; the sagittal, 

 coronal and frontal, are obliterated ; the horizontal 

 contour of the cranium is more oval than in the 

 average European skull compared with the one from 

 Fernand Vaz, owing to the more lateral contraction 

 of the forehead in the Fan. 



The super-occipital is })retty regularly convex, as 



