arms round his neck with a caressing- gesture Mafuea was ab!e to use 



a spoon, although somewhat awkwardly; and she could pour from 

 larger vessels into smaller ones without spilling the liquor. She took 

 tea and cocoa in the morning and evening, and a mixed diet between 



whiles, such as fruit, sweetmeats, red wine and water, and sugar If 



she was left alone for any time she tried to open the lock of her cage 

 without having the key, and she once succeeded in doing so. On that 

 occasion she stole the key, which was hanging on the wall, hid it in 

 her axilla [arm- pit], and crept quietly back to her cage. With the key 

 she easily opened the lock ; and she also knew how to use a gimlet. 

 She would draw off the keeper's boots, scramble up to some place out 

 of reach with them, and throw them at his head when asked for them. 

 She could wring out wet cloths, and blow her nose with a handkerchief 

 When her illness began, she became apathetic, and looked about with 

 a vacant, unobservant stare. Just before her death, from consumption, 

 she put her arms round Schopf s neck when he came to visit her, looked 

 at him placidly, kissed him three times, stretched out her hand to him, 

 and. died." It may be added to this that Mafuea exhibited the greatest 

 decorum and modesty in the performance of all her daily and other 

 natural functions. 



Aidanill, the hairless Australian, is a good specimen of a low type of 

 human being ; having a superciliary prominence greater than is usually 

 found amongst races of men, with a remarkably small cranial capacity 

 and almost entire absence of frontal development. The skull, in fact, 

 differs but little from that of Mafuea, given beneath it ; and its owner 

 belonged to those races describad on p. 14 of " Evolution of Mind." 



The Swaheli Negro is a good specimen of the dolichocephalic prog- 

 nathous type of head, considerably higher in intellectual capacity than 

 that of Aidanill. 



The hands are intended to illustrate the close resemblance between 

 the hand of a gorilla and that of a man belonging to the Hanimeghs of 

 the Nubian Soudan. It will be observed that while the fingers of the 

 gorilla are webbed, the second and third fingers of the man are slightly 

 webbed and his thumb and first finger very considerably webbed. 



