PART I. 



THE COLLECTIONS FROM MELANESIA. 



M AMMALI A. 



BY 



OLDFIELD THOMAS. 



The Mammalia collected by Dr. Coppinger are too few in number 

 and of too common occurrence to be deserving of special notice; but 

 a very interesting series of Melanesian skulls was obtained by him 

 from various islands in the Pacific, and of these the most important 

 measurements are given in the following notes. 



1. Skull of Torres-Straits Islander. (Plates I. & II. fig. A.) 



Male. Adult. 

 ■ " Native chief of Xagheer Island, Torres Straits."— B. W. C. 



Length 1 174; gl. occ. 2 181. Breadth 3 144. Height 4 136. 

 Maximum frontal breadth 5 115 ; minimum frontal breadth 6 

 99. Horizontal circumferences — preauricular 7 237, total 8 514. 

 Transverse arcs— frontal 9 286, bregmatic 10 303, parietal 11 323, 

 occipital 12 273. Longitudinal arcs — frontal 13 121, parietal 14 

 129, occipital 15 113. Foramen magnum — length 16 35, width 17 

 29. Basinasal length 18 105. Basialveolar length 19 112. Bi- 

 zygomatic breadth 20 136. Height of — face 21 98, malar 22 25, 

 alveolus 23 22. Auriculo-orbital length 24 72. Nasal height 25 

 50, width 26 24. Maxilla— length 27 {55, width 28 67. 



Mandible — bicondylar width 29 126, bigoniac width 30 99, symphy- 

 sial height 31 33, molar height 32 29, coronoid height 33 63, gouio- 

 symphysial length (1. side) 34 81. Ramus — height 35 71, antero- 

 posterior breadth 36 35. Bigoniac arc 37 194. 



Indices— latitudinal 38 82-8, altitudinal 39 78-2, frontal 40 687, 

 gnathic 41 106-7, nasal 42 48-0. 



i 9-12 is is 27 29 33 39 39 t, a fc en according to Flower, Journ. Anthrop. Inst, x 

 p. 172(1881), and Cat. CoU. Surg. i. p. xvii (1879). 

 r a_s 13-17 2&-2e 28-32 31-37 40-^ Broca, Instruct. Craniol. (Paris, 187o). 



