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vertical line as the glabella. The alisphenoid joins the parietal on each side of the head. The 

 molars are of moderate size ; the last has not come into place. 



Presented by Henry Bickersteth, Esq. 



5359. The cranium of a Hottentot. 



In the contracted hut almost vertical forehead, continued, with a very slight prominence 

 of the glabella, to the narrow flattened nasals, and in the general shape of the cranium, this 

 closely resembles the skull of the Boschisman, No. 5357. The malar bones are equally pro- 

 minent, and the facial parts of the maxillaries are similarly depressed, but the superorbital 

 ridges are less thickened and less produced. The alisphenoid joins the parietal on both sides 

 of the head. The molars are small. The upper border of the squamosals is on a level with 

 the fronto-malar suture. The superoccipital region rises immediately from the hinder mar- 

 gin of the foramen magnum. 



Purchased. 



5360. The cranium of a male Caffre. 



The man was slain by a musket-ball which has penetrated the glabella. 



The cranium is long, moderately broad, but with the frontal region low and sloping at the 

 sides. The squamosal joins the frontal on both sides. The glabella is slightly prominent. 

 The nasal bones are broad and flat. The malars are small, but prominent, and the zygomata 

 large and strong. The supramastoid ridges are well marked. The upper jaw is much pro- 

 duced, and the molars are of moderate size. 



Presented by Benjamin Trovers, jun., Esq., F.B. C.S. 



5361. The skull of a Caffre. 



The frontal region is narrow and sloping ; the parietal prominences are well developed, and 

 the squamosal region is protuberant. The alisphenoid joins the parietal on both sides of the 

 head. The broad and slightly prominent nasals are continued from the same vertical line as 

 the glabella. The jaws are unusually prominent. The posterior molars are much decayed. 



Mus. South. 



5362. The cranium of an African Negro. 



It differs from Nos. 5360 & 5361 in being more depressed above, broader at the parietal 

 protuberances, and shorter. A small portion of the left alisphenoid joins the parietal ; a large 

 wormian bone is interposed on the right side. The glabella is very slightly prominent. The 

 nasal bones are unusually narrow. The maxilla is produced, and the molars are rather large. 

 The basioccipital and basisphenoid are unusually broad and flat. The paroccipital tubercles 

 are well marked. The superoccipital region forms a less obtuse angle with the plane of the 

 foramen magnum than in the other Negro skulls, which for the most part differ in this respect 

 from the White races. 



Hunterian. 



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