276 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
and absorb their nourishment probably by means of filamentous pseu- 
ae dopodia ee pari the system of passages leading from the 
a medial plane to the inner surface. 
memoir nota also the results of a microscopic investigation 
of the Orbitolites, showing their relation to the Nummulites, and also 
observations sng ~ Orbitoides, indicating that they also are Fo- 
\, Taminifera. 
: IV: ieisccovs INTELLIGENCE. 
1. On the Negro Races of Oriental Africa; by M. Serres, (L’In- 
stitut, No. 857, June 5, 1850, from the Proceedings of the Academy 
of Sciences of Paris, Jone 3 , 1850.)—M. Serres read a report on the 
+ negro races of Oriental Africa, south of the equator, observed by M. 
de Froberville. The conclusions of the report are as follows :—That 
the grddation or degradation of the physical | of the Ostro- 
. Negros justifies in all points the divisions which the author has laid 
4 down ;—that among these characters, the os. sien of the maxillaries, 
the thickness and prominence of the lips, the woolly or frizzled tendency 
jn the hair, the shades of color in the skin, are eh eit and properly 
brought out ;—that with regard to the prognatism of the maxillaries an 
the peculiarity of the lips “en forme de boudin,” there isa ‘regu gra- 
ation from the Congo-Guinea negro to the Eastern Oceanic negro, “ 
these to the Caffro-Bechuans, and these last pte into the 
“mongrels in those physical conditions where e observed ‘a 
me’ ‘branches of the Caucasian race ;—that this gradation ‘of characters, 
, is well sustained 
aa 
; e a, a in it anthropology ;—that this interest is independent the Phenician 
f " a __ Onigin, Frobervi ie attributes to it, and which at present Is 
e' + Ss only” a h othesis ; ;—that the repetition of an oceano-negro type 
: one i “the groups of Oren — is also a most curious re- 
* sult, bearing upon: the affiliation of ra n spite of the disagreement 
oe which ‘exists in this subject: Aiesahee rode and anthropology s— 
_ et finally, from the analysis and comparison of the physical charac- 
. of the Ostro-negros, the conclusion of the author is obvious and — es 
h the Congd- - 
nk an, Caffro-bechuan and Ostro-negro races are. lassdicd; the vrai 
distinctly does the Rac! of the human race come out as an establishe 
gt in Hs a 
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