J. Wyman on the Engé-ena. 37 
pointed process. The enlargement of this process in the En- 
gé-ena,* so as to form an extensive articulation with the nasal 
bones, inasmuch as it is a repetition of what exists in the lower 
quadrumana and nearly all the mammalia, must be regarded as an 
index of degradation. 
Ossa Nasi.—Prof. Owen, in his memoir} on the Engé-ena, in 
speaking of the sutures between the nasal maxillary and inter- 
maxillary bones, says, ‘it is remarkable indeed since these sutures 
remain so distinct in the adult female skull and the two adult 
male skulls, in the Bristol Museum, that no trace of them should 
have been detected in either of the four skulls taken to America 
y Dr. Savage, in which the ossa nasi are described as being 
firmly codssified with each other and the surrounding boues,” (the 
concluding words of the above sentence he does not quote, viz., 
“but their outline is sufficiently distinct.”) In the cranium 
brought by Dr. Perkins, the consolidation of these boues is 
equally complete and their ontline is but indistinctly traceable. 
In the crania formerly described, the ossa nasi form, on the 
median line, a sharp elevation or crest; in the specimen figured 
by Prof. Owen, (PI. Ixii,) this is represented by a more rounded 
and convex ridge, “and thus offering a feature of approximation 
to the human structure which is very faintly indicated, if at all, 
in the skull of the 7’. niger.”{ In the cranium now under con- 
eration, when compared with the Plate above referred to, the 
convexity is still more remarkable, and will bear a more favorable 
comparison with the “bridge” of the nose in some of the huma 
races, 
The expansion of the nasals above, where they are interposed 
between the frontals, as described by Prof. Owen, was overlook- 
ed in my former description, only very faint indications of sutures 
tfemaining. Ona more careful examination, the outline of the 
portion of bone interposed between the orbitar process of the 
frontals js indistinctly traceable in the male skull discovered by 
Dr. Savage, and in both of the crania bronght to this country by 
Dr. Perkins; and in all of them, on a line with the upper extrem- 
ity of the ascending process of the superior maxillary bone, at 
the point where the nasal bones become the most contracted, 
there exists an equally strong indication of a transverse suture, 
which Separates the portion marked 15/ in Prof. Owen’s figure 
from the true nasals, and equally distinct indications of this suture 
exist in his figure just referred to. ‘Thus we have strong ground 
or the supposition that the part marked 15’ by Prof. O. may not 
the expanded portion of the nasals but an additional osseous 
element intercalated between the frontals. In this event my orig- 
Di ee 
* This is very distinctly shown in PI. lxii. of Prof. Owen’s Memoir. 
t Op. cit., p. 420, $ Op. cit., p. 393. 
