XXV. 

 ON THE CEANIOLOGY OF THE BUSHMEN. 



The following human bones — viz. four skulls, six lower jaws, 

 four cervical vertebrae, one large and one small sized scapula, two 

 small sized and fragmentary humeri, a fragment of a very slight 

 but adult ulna, four cervical vertebrae, and five more or less frag- 

 mentary ribs — have been put into my hands by Mr. C. G. Oates, 

 with information to the effect that they had belonged probably to 

 a Bushman horde massacred somewhere between the Tati and 

 Ramaqueban rivers, in S. lat. 20 54', and long. 27 42'. With 

 these human bones came some bones of Equus (caballus or zebra ?) ; 

 also of one large ruminant (Bos taurus or Bos caffer), and one 

 smaller ; and part of the skull of an ostrich (StrutMo camelus) ; and, 

 later, the feet-bones of an elephant (Elephas qfricanus). All these 

 bones had been collected by my former pupil, Mr. Frank Oates, of 

 Christ Church, Oxford. The four skulls had not their lower jaws 

 assigned to them ; but to three of them jaws were assignable, which 

 in all probability had really belonged to them, being very exactly 

 coadaptable, to say nothing of their having been sent in company 

 with them and with certain cervical vertebrae. These six lower 

 jaws are by far the most important bones as regards the question of 

 the nationality of the entire 'find.' If, indeed, these half-dozen 

 lower jaws had been brought to me with no other accompaniments 

 and with no other information than that they had been all brought 

 from one spot in Africa, I think I should have been justified in 

 saying that they had belonged to no other known African race than 

 the Khoi-Khoin, or its central African representative, the Akka. 

 For they all six alike show the following distinctive and eminently 

 significant peculiarities — viz. lowness of coronoid process, smallness 

 of absolute size, and all but complete obsolescence of chin. Upon 



