296 FORMS OF THE SKULL. 



The European or Caucasian character of the second is 

 quite obvious ; yet, in the description, there appears a 

 desire of fixing on it some mark of Negro descent. " Quod 

 vero universum vultum attinet, differt quidem ille satis lu- 

 culenter a genuino isto Nigritarum, qui Anglis vulgo facies 

 Guineensis audit; Mthiopici tamen aliquid spirat, ita ut 

 propius absit ab Habessinico, qualem curata icon exhi- 

 bet, proxime autem ab eo, quern tot antiquissima iEgyp- 

 tiacie artis monumenta pr^e se ferunt/' The Abyssinians, 

 to whom a comparison is here made, are of Arab descent, 

 and have all the characters of tlie Caucasian variety. 



SoEMMERRiNG dcscribcs the heads of four mummies 

 which he has seen : two of them differed in no respect 

 from the European formation ; the third had the African 

 character of a large space marked out for the temporal 

 muscle : no other proof of Negro descent is mentioned : 

 and what is stated concerning the face rather contradicts 

 the supposition : the characters of the fourth are not par- 

 ticularized. 



" Caput mumiae, quod Cassellis, in museo servatur, nil 

 fere ab Europseo differt*. 



" Caput etiam mumiie in theatro anatomico Marpurgensi 

 servatum, cujus exacta delineatio ad manus est, nil a capite 

 Europffio deflectit. 



" Pulcherrima et optime servata, forsan virilis mumiae 

 calvaria optimse aetatis, qua me Mieg, Professor Basileensis 

 benevole donavit, quseque olim in collectione F. Plateri 

 fuit, distincte formam Africanam, alte progredlente vestigio 

 insitionis musculi temporalis, rcpraesentat ; vertex non est 

 compressus, neqiie ossa faciei robustiora sunt ossibus Euro- 

 pcEorum. Densum ordinem integri pulchri dentes sistunt, 

 non nisi inferiores incisores et canini oblique priora et infe- 

 riora versus attenuati sunt, plurimum vero medium inciso- 

 rum par, brevioribus ea de causa coronis instructum. 



" Calvaria mumiae hominis senis confecti, ab eodem 

 Mieg mihi data, ^gyptiacam ossium faciei formam minus 



* Bruckmann's Nachricht von eincr Mumie ; Brunswick, 1782. 4to. 



