ON THE CKANIOLOGY OF THE BUSHMEN. 469 



crania, a series well represented here. The only other race of 

 indisputably pristine and very pristine habits, in which I have ob- 

 served it to exist, is the Eskimo, and out of a large number of such 

 skulls I have only noted it once, in the form of bilaterally sym- 

 metrical fissure. The other skulls which this Museum contains 

 possessing this suture either well or rudimentarily developed, are 

 six in number. Four are presumably either of the Malay or of 

 the Chinese race, as two were collected by Captain Elmhirst of the 

 9th Regiment, from the sea-shore of an island in the Chinese Seas, 

 out of a great quantity which were lying about unburied, and were 

 supposed to have belonged to Chinese pirates, and were finally pre- 

 sented to the University Museum by the Rev. H. Hansell, Fellow 

 of Magdalen College ; the third was a skull of a female Moro, 

 collected in the mountains of Sulu, and presented by Captain 

 Chimmo, R.N. ; whilst the fourth was purchased from Mr. Cutter, 

 the dealer in Natural History specimens, as being a Borneo pirate. 

 The other two are from Ceylon, one being a Tamil from Central 

 Ceylon, presented by Mr. B. F. Hartshorne, who was himself for a 

 considerable time resident in the island, and has written upon its 

 ethnology; the other being a ' Malabar.' As the absence of this 

 suture from the Zulu and Negro series gives additional importance 

 to its presence in the Bushman, so its absence, which I have noted 

 in a considerable number of Praearyan skulls, such as those of the 

 Coles and Moosahurs, procured for me by William Duthoit, Esq., 

 D.C.L., gives additional importance to its presence in ' Malabars,' 

 'Tamils,' Malays and Chinese. Of course further research may dis- 

 cover this suture in other races of mankind ; as the matter stands at 

 present I am tempted to think that there is possibly some signifi- 

 cance in its having been noticed in the Eskimo, in the Bushman, in 

 certain races of the Eastern Archipelago, and in Tamil skulls, as 

 well as in the fact of its having been found to be absent in certain 

 other skulls also of ancient races, such as the Kolarian and the 

 Australian *. 



1 It may be well here to give the literature of the Os (Malare) bipartitum :— 



1779. E. Sandifort, 'Observat. Anat. Path.' lib. iii. 113 ; tab. viii. fig. 7. 



1837. ' Lecons d'Anatornie Comparee,' par Georges Cuvier et M. Dumeril. Seconde 

 Edition, par F. G. Cuvier et Laurillard, tome ii. p. 381, 1837. 



1844. Breschet, 'Ann. Sciences Nat.' 3 ser. Zoologie, tome i. p. 30. 



1852. Schultz in 'Bemerkungen tiber den Bau der normalen Menschenschadel,' 

 p. 57, tab. ii. 



