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onto University. The remainder, as Avell as that attached to 

 the mummy, are in the Peter Redpath IMuseum. Thus our 

 collection consists at present of nine detached skulls and a 

 complete munnny from Teneriffe, one skull from Gran Canaria, 

 and the original skull presented Ity Mr. Haliburton, twelve in 

 all. I shall here refer to the collection of Dr. Lambert alone, 

 though the remaining skull is similar in general aspect, but 

 its precise locality was not stated by the donor. 



As a whole the skulls are of a more refined type and. 

 texture than is usual with those of barbarous peoples. Thi^? 

 fine type of the crania at once attracted the attention of !Sir 

 Daniel Wilson on his examination of the collection, and he 

 expressed himself as doubtful of any close resemblance to 

 certain Palanthropic skulls they have been said to resemble. 

 On more close inspection, however, we recognize some of the 

 characteristic appearances seen in the crania of rude and 

 primitive people, as for instance, somewhat pronounced 

 superciliary arches, a narrow forehead somewhat retreating, 

 a certain angular character in the vertex, a tendency to 

 occipital protuberance, and a strong development of the 

 lines of attachment of the temporal muscles ; but these 

 characters are on the whole of a subdued type. 



]\Iost of the skulls are those of males, but two are probably 

 females and are smaller and more delicate in form. They 

 fully vindicate the reports of the regular features and pre- 

 possessing appearance of these people. The length of the 

 single Gran Canarian specimen is 7"37 inches, its breadth 

 5*62 inches. The mean length of three male skulls from 

 Teneriffe is 7*27 inches, their breadth 5*41 inches. One of the 

 specimens figured is that from Gran Canaria. the other is an 

 ordinary example of those from Teneriffe ; biit some of the 

 others approach nearer to the Gran Canarian type. 



The whole of these Crania, particularly the ten from 

 Teneriffe, are somewhat uniform in type — more so than we 

 usually find in a miscellaneous collection of native North 

 American skulls of one tribe. They are oval in form and 

 mesito-cephalous, with fairly developed foreheads, but the 

 superciliary ridges somewhat prominent in most. The nasal 

 bones are prominent and not wide but much depressed at the 

 junction with the forehead. The cheek-bones are not unduly 

 prominent, the jaAvs orthognathous, the chin prominent and 

 sometimes pointed. The teeth are usually regular and well 

 develo})ed though there are exceptions to this. They are 

 not much worn on the crowns. Some have one large Wor- 



