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brain and the disuse of the jaws and teeth as weapons of offence 

 and defence. It therefore follows that those races of mankind 

 which have prominent jaws and small brain-cases are of a lower 

 type than those in which the jaws are more reduced in size and 

 the brain-case is larger. Thus the Australians and Tasmanians 



Fig. 28. 



Fig. 29. 



Skull of Caucasian. 



Skull of Torres-Strait Islander. 



have a very small brain-cavity, thick skull-bones, receding forehead, 

 overhanging brows, flat nasal bones, long and low orbits, very 

 broad and low nasal-opening, forward projecting jaws, and large 

 teeth : strongly contrasting in each of these respects with the 

 skull of a European. 



The skeletons exhibited are those of a European man and woman, 

 and that of a full-grown Akka woman, one of the race of pygmies 

 inhabiting Central Africa. This skeleton was presented by Emin 

 Pasha, and measures slightly less than four feet in height. 



Above the skeletons in Case 1 are some European and North- 

 African skulls, among which may be specially noted those of two 

 ancient Greeks, from a tomb at Cyrene. In Division B are exhi- 

 bited some of the many skulls of Egyptian Mummies presented by 

 Mr. Flinders Petrie and part of the magnificent collection of skulls 

 of Nepalese natives of various tribes made by Mr. B. H. Hodgson, 

 and presented by him to the Museum. Then follow (Div. C) 

 Chinese, Malaccan, Sumatran, and other Malay skulls, and those of 



