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5397. The skull of a female, native of New Zealand, with the basis cranii mutilated. 



It differs from those of the males in the smaller cranium and more protuberant super- 

 occipital, in the less prominent superorbital ridges and malars, which latter hones are smoothly 

 rounded. Traces of the maxillo-premaxillary sutures remain on the palate. 



Hunterian. 



5398. The skull of a female, native of New Zealand. 



The glabella is prominent, the jaws slightly produced ; but the general characters of the 

 skull correspond, save the usual female modifications, with those of the males. The right 

 paroccipital is well developed, and probably hi relation to a distorted position of the head 

 upon the neck, for the right occipital condyle is much shorter and broader than the left. As 

 compared with the skull of a female Australian, there may be discerned, with a slight supe- 

 riority in the capacity of the cranium, the more constant characteristics of the Polynesian 

 race, in the greater extent of the alisphenoid which joins the parietal, the minor breadth of 

 the basioccipital, the smaller size of the teeth, especially the molars, the smaller bony palate, 

 the more prominent nasals, and the larger lower jaw, with its more prominent or produced 

 inferior border. 



In all the above male skulls of the Natives of New Zealand, the cranium presents the ovate 

 form, with the parietal prominences well developed, the sides sloping away moderately from 

 the sagittal line : the forehead is narrow, sloping in most, and the upper jaw is moderately 

 produced in most. The malars are moderately prominent: the nasals are prominent and 

 large in most : the lower jaw is large and with a well-developed chin in all : the molar teeth 

 are in a marked degree less than in the Australian natives. 



Presented by the Hon. William Martin, Chief Justice of New Zealand. 



5399. The skull of a male native of Lefoo, the largest of the Loyalty Islands, near 

 New Caledonia. 



In general size and configuration it corresponds with the New Zealand skulls. The 

 squamosals rise to above the level of the orbits. The glabella is slightly prominent, and the 

 large well-developed nasals are continued from nearly the same vertical line with it. The 

 forehead is narrow and sloping. The jaws very slightly prominent. The thickened posterior 

 border of each parietal is developed so as to overlap, as it were, part of the lambdoidal suture. 



In a letter accompanying this specimen the Donor remarks, that " the Lefoo natives whom 

 I have seen alive in Sydney appear to be a mixed race of the Papuan and Malayan." 



Presented by George Bennett, Esq., F.L.S. 



5400. The skull of a female native of Lefoo Island. 



Presented by George Bennett, Esq., F.L.S. 



5401. The skull of a child, native of Lefoo Island, which has acquired the permanent 

 incisors and first true molars. Presented by George Bennett, Esq., F.L.S. 



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