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bones of the cranium have been artificially stained ; those of the face much mutilated by the 

 rude and singular ornamental processes to which it has been subject. The cavities of the 

 face have been filled and the facial bones plastered over with a kind of ochreous marl, in 

 which numerous seeds with a whitish pearly surface have been stuck : a piece of wood ter- 

 minated by the valve of a large reddish seed has been inserted into each orbit : a long, flat, 

 widely perforated piece of wood is wedged in the nostril, from the base of which a longer 

 appendage of twisted vegetable fibre depends, in front of the mouth and chin, like a plaited 

 beard, probably indicative of the sex. 



This singular specimen was discovered by an exploring party from H.M.S. Fly, in a large 

 deserted native hut, on the banks of one of the rivers of New Guinea, suspended by the quasi 

 beard from a frame under the middle of the roof. 



Presented by Captain Blackwood, R.N. 



5356. A similar specimen, found under the same circumstances. 



Presented by Captain, Blackwood, R.N. 



5357. The skeleton of an adult male Boschisman, from the Cape of Good Hope. 



From the obliteration of most of the alveoli this skeleton appears to have belonged to an 

 aged individual. 



The total height from the vertex to the sole is four feet five inches : the length of the ver- 

 tebral column from the atlas to the sacrum, following the anterior curves, is one foot seven 

 inches : the length of the sacrum is three inches nine lines : the breadth of the sacrum is three 

 inches four lines. The cranium is flatter at the vertex and relatively broader at the parietal 

 protuberances than in the Australian race, and the forehead, though low and narrow, is more 

 prominent. A larger proportion of the alisphenoid joins the parietal. The border of the 

 orbit is thick and prominent, but the superorbital ridge is not carried so strongly across the 

 glabella, and the origin of the nasals is less sunk, than in the Australian race : the nasals 

 are narrower and flatter and the malar protuberances are more regularly convex and promi- 

 nent. The prognathic character of the jaws is affected by the absorption of the alveoli due 

 to age. The costal portions of the transverse process of the sixth cervical are more deve- 

 loped : the spines of all the cerricals below the axis are simple ; those of the third, fourth 

 and fifth are short and of equal length. The right clavicle is more curved upwards and less 

 expanded at its distal end than usual. The superior angle of the scapula is rounded off, and 

 the supraspinal fossa is narrower behind. The diapophyses are backwardly produced in the 

 tenth and the eleventh dorsals. The metapophyses are strongly developed in the twelfth. 

 The anterior ridge of the tibia is bowed forwards. 



Presented by Henry Bickerstetk, Esq., Surgeon to the Somerset Hospital, 



Cape Town. 



5358. The skull of a female Boschisman, from the Cape of Good Hope. 



It agrees in general shape with that of the skeleton, No. 5357, but the glabella and super- 

 orbital ridges are much less prominent. The flattened nasals are continued from the same 



