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bony outgrowths are believed by many surgeons to be 
hereditary. 
In his concluding remarks Macalister says, “ That 
outgrowths here may be really race characters is not to 
be entirely ridiculed, for the neighbouring malar bone 
which here, according to O’Reilly’s description, partict- 
pates in the swelling, certainly shows certain race pecu- 
liarities, such as the bigger 7wderosttas malaris of the 
Fic. 106.—A so-called Horned Man of Africa. (After Lamprey.) 
Mongolians, and the Processus marginalis, whose race 
peculiarities have been pointed out by Werfer.” 
Some further particulars relative to horned men have 
been furnished by J. J. Lamprey,t of the Army Medical 
Staff, who has had opportunities of examining carefully 
three persons from different localities in Western Africa, 
having peculiarities similar to Macalister’s case. In each 
* British Medical Journal, 1888. 
