J. Wyman on the Engé-ena. 41 
Cranium II. Mare.—This cranium belonged to an individual 
much older than the one described in the preceding pages, the 
ases. ‘The same obliteration of the sutures had taken place, the 
malar bones are more tumid, rendering the edge of the lower and 
outer part of the orbit more rounded. The floor of the nasal 
tery exist on each side. ‘ 
Zoological position of the Engé-ena. 
With the knowledge of the anthropoid animals of Asia and 
Africa which now exist, derived from the critical examinations of 
their osteology, their dentition, and the comparative size of their 
brains by various observers, especially Geoffroy, Tiedemann, Vro- 
lik, Cuvier, and Owen, it becomes quite easy to measure with an 
approximation to accuracy, the hiatus which separates them from 
the lowest of the human race. The existence of four hands in- 
roots to the bicuspid teeth, the laryngeal pouches, the elongated 
pelvis and its larger antero-posterior diameter, the flattened and 
poluted coccyx, the small glutei, the smaller size of the lower 
compared with the upper portion of the vertebral column, the 
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