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When artificially rendered transparent, the whole surface of the shaft is seen marked 

 with longitudinal strice, here and there interrupted, and of a dark color. This dry hair is 

 easily crushed, when it becomes bright red, breaks into portions and separates into fibrils 

 of extreme fineness. 



Conclusion. We do not apprehend that any one will deny that we have proven that 

 the cylindrical and oval-haired species have existed for twenty-seven centuries. 



OF THE ECCENTRICALLY ELLIPTICAL SPECIES. It might easily be supposed that in a 

 city like Philadelphia, abounding in black faces, no difficulty would be encountered in 

 procuring pure negro hair. It is quite the contrary, with great exertions we have been 

 able to obtain the following only : 



1. Hair of the head of a negro, born in Congo, Africa, the manumitted slave of Colonel 

 S. B. Davis, of Wilmington, Delaware ; whom we call Congo Billy. 



2. The Bushman boy from South Africa. 



3. Pure negro wool, presented by Dr. Herring. 



4. Pure negro wool from Wilmington, N. Carolina, presented by P. A. Marstellen, Esq., 

 of Arrellton, Prince William County, Virginia, 



5. Pure negro wool of Tom, and the same of Jenny, slaves belonging to Samuel Hodge, 

 Little Pedee river, Marion District, South Carolina, presented by Mr. James Mullens. 



6. Pure negro wool of a slave brought from Africa to Charleston, many years ago, now 

 residing in Louisiana, presented by Dr. Marcus Taylor, of West Point, Georgia. " 



7. Pure African wool, presented by Dr. J. B. Baily, of Oxford, Georgia. 



8 to 15. Eight specimens of pure negro wool from the Rev. Mr. Jno. S. Brooks, of Mendi 

 Mission, Africa. 



Upon a careful examination, all these have been found to be eccentrically elliptical, and 

 to be spirally curled. We will notice more particularly some of these specimens. 



1. The Bushman Boy. The following is a description of this person from the pen of 

 William F. Van Amringe, Esq., the author of the Natural History of Man. 



" Accidentally hearing that a Bushman boy was in the Colored Orphan Asylum of New 

 York, I visited the institution to see him. He is supposed to be about 18 years of age; 

 but is not taller than our children of 9 or 10, thick set, and well formed, without any indi- 

 cation of dwarfish peculiarities; that is, his developments are natural, not stunted. His 

 complexion is light mullatto; eyes, deep set; cheek bones very prominent and projecting 

 laterally; forehead low, very narrow, but not receding; comparison full, but causality 

 deficient; caution very largely developed; combativeness full; his posterior or animal 

 region of the skull was, I thought, disproportionably small, at which I was somewhat sur- 

 prised. His pile is remarkably peculiar; each tuft on the head 'is perfectly isolated, 

 exhibiting a distinct circle of yellow cuticle, or line of division from every other tuft. 

 The tufts are remarkably small, arid the hairs of each of them so lightly interwoven that 

 each hair appears to be tightly drawn to a common centre." MS. 



The following brief sketch of his history is from the same talented gentleman : 



" Six years ago a trader from ihe Cape Colony was on an expedition in the Bushman 



