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5384. The left moiety of a vertically bisected cranium of a male African Negro. 



The cranial walls are characteristically thick, and show the small amount of diploe in the 

 parietal, as compared with the frontal and the thick superoccipital bones. 



Purchased. 



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5385. The left moiety of a vertically bisected cranium of a female African Negro. 



It corresponds in character with the preceding, making allowance for the sexual inferiority 

 of size. A trace of the premaxillary suture extends from the palate through the incisive 

 foramen and along a considerable part of the inner surface of the nostril. 



Hunter ian. 



The Melanian skulls of the African races above described, are divisible into two groups or types, 

 according to the form of the cranium. In the one it is narrow in proportion to its length, with the 

 parietal protuberances slightly or not at all prominent, and the sides sloping quickly from the sagittal 

 region ; but the upper contour differs from that of the Australian in the angle formed at the junction 

 of the more vertical part of the frontal with the upper surface of the cranium. 



In the other group the cranium is broader in proportion to its length, the parietal protuberances are 

 well marked, and the sides slope away less rapidly or obliquely from the sagittal region. The narrow 

 forehead commonly presents the same verticality in both types. 



To the first of these divisions, or narrow type, belong Nos. 53725383, of which one is certified 

 to be from Ashantee, a second from the Mozambique, and a third from a South African tribe called 

 ' Baguani.' 



The remainder are referable to the round type, and include the skulls of the Boschismen, the Hot- 

 tentot, the Caffres, that certified to be from the Gold Coast, that from Madagascar, and those of the 

 Negro slaves, which most resemble in form the skull from the Gold Coast. 



It is to be observed that the Caffre skulls differ from those of the Hottentots and Boschismen in their 

 larger size, the greater capacity of the cranium, and the greater strength of the bones of the face. 



Xanthian (yellow, olive and red) varieties. 



Polynesian Race. 



5386. The skeleton of a male Polynesian, native of Tahiti. 



It measures five feet four inches from the vertex to the sole. The forehead is narrow and 

 sloping : the parietal protuberances are moderately developed and the cranium is of moderate 

 length, and is narrower and flatter at the sides than in the White races generally. The nasal 

 bones are prominent. The jaws are much produced. The costal part of the sixth cervical 

 vertebra is much produced. The metapophyses are well developed and project midway 

 between the diapophyses and prozygapophyses on the eleventh dorsal : they pass upon those 

 zygapophyses in the twelfth dorsal, in which there is a rudimental anapophysis as well as 

 diapophysis. The anapophysis subsides to a ridge in the first lumbar vertebra, whilst the 



