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5367. The skull of a female African Negro slave, who died an idiot in the Hospital 

 at Demerara. 



The parietal protuberances and the superorbital and glabellar ridges are much less deve- 

 loped in this skull. The flattened nasals are continued from the same plane with the 

 glabella. There is a wormian ossicle, apparently a dismemberment of the parietal, at the 

 junction of that bone with the alisphenoids. The paroccipital tubercles are well marked. 



Presented by Sir Robert Schomburgk. 



5368. The cranium of a Negro, from Mujamb's Bay, Madagascar. 



The flattened nasals are continued almost from the vertical line of the glabella. The ali- 

 sphenoid joins the parietals on both sides of the head. The angle between the anterior and 

 upper part of the frontal is well marked. The cranium is oval and expanded at the parietal 

 protuberances. The maxilla is prominent : the bony palate long and broad : the molars are 

 moderately large. 



Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, R.N. 



5369. The skull of a male African Negro, from which part of the basis cranii and 

 the right zygoma have been broken away. 



The cranium is short and expanded at the parietal protuberances. The nasals are more 

 narrow and less flat than in No. 5368. The maxillaries are produced in the same degree, 

 although the last true molars are not in place. Traces of the maxillo-premaxillary suture are 

 retained on the palate. A wormian ossicle intervenes between the alisphenoid and parietal on 

 each side. 



Hunterian. 



5370. The cranium, vertically and longitudinally bisected, of an African Negro. 



It shows the characteristic thickness of the cranial parietes and the small capacity of the 

 cranium as compared with that in civilized and educated White races. The apex of the ali- 

 sphenoid joins the parietal on each side of the head. The glabella and superorbital ridge are 

 not prominent. This skull belongs to the broader and shorter type. 



Hunterian. 



5371. The base of the cranium of a male African Negro of large stature. 



It has the characteristics of the moderately elevated nasal bones and prognathic upper jaw, 

 the alveolar border of which is of great extent and circumscribes a large semicircular bony 

 palate : the prominence of the sockets of the canines imparts a bestial character to the phy- 

 siognomy of this cranium. 



Mus. Langstaff. 



5372. The skeleton of a male African Negro. 



The bones are less slender, in proportion, than those of the Polynesian (No. 5386). The 

 cranium is narrow and the jaws prognathic ; but the forehead recedes less and the nasal 



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