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ON THE CRANIOLOGY OF THE BUSHMEN. 465 



these bones, tell in the same direction, but do not prove feebleness 

 of mind. 



For purposes of comparison with these three presumably Bush- 

 man crania, I have had three other crania at hand from the 

 University Museum, of the genuineness of which there can be little 

 doubt. One of these was presented to the University Museum by 

 the late and much-lamented Dr. W. H. J. Bleek, to whose labours 1 

 in elucidating the language and rescuing the folklore of the Bush- 

 man tribe from perishing we owe so much. This skull, which was 

 brought to England by Mr. Alfred Hughes of St. Asaph, bears a 

 label, « Eland's Been, nr. Schietfontein 2 , Bushman's skull,' and was 

 handed over to me by that gentleman at the desire of Dr. Bleek. 

 A second skull came into my hands through the kindness of 

 W. G. Marshall, Esq., of Colney Hatch, having been entrusted to 

 him by George Dunsterville, Esq., of Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, 

 S. Africa, who was for some years surgeon to the hospital at Port 

 Elizabeth. This skull, which, like the preceding, belonged to an 

 exceedingly old man, carries the following labels : — ' From the 

 Transvaal, S. African Republic ;' 'Of an original Bosjesman, a tribe 

 of small Hottentots, now nearly extinct ; over age ; height, 4 ft. 

 4 m.' 3 The evidence for the authenticity of the third Bushman 

 cranium, which was in the University Museum previously to the 

 arrival of Mr. Oates's consignment, is even more irrefragable. This 

 cranium was procured for the University through the kindness of 

 H. N. Moseley, Esq., F.R.S., from Mr. Fairclough of Cape Town, 

 and with the cranium came a knife, a poison-pot, a quiver, a 

 poisoned arrow, and an ivory wrist-protector which had belonged 

 to the owner of the skull. This skull belonged to a man past the 

 middle period of life, and is remarkable for its absolute height, no 



1 See his two Reports concerning his Researches into the Bushman Language and 

 Customs and Folklore, presented to both Houses of Parliament of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, by command of his Excellency the Governor, 1873 and 1875, and 'Journal of the 

 Anthropological Institute,' 1871. 



2 [The name of the locality from which this skull came had been misread in the 

 original article. Mr. C. G. Oates suggested to me that it was perhaps Eland's Been, 

 near Schietfontein, in the District of Carnarvon, Cape Colony. The accuracy of this 

 suggestion has been confirmed by Mr. W. Hatchett Jackson, who has kindly re- 

 examined the label. I have accordingly corrected it in the text.— Editor ] 



3 [Mr. Hatchett Jackson informs me that the skull presented by Mr. Dunsterville 

 was marked 'female' on the label and that it is the counterpart of the skull presented by 

 Dr. Bleek, whilst the skull given by Mr. Fairclough was known to be male.— Editor.] 



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