TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 703 



10. Report on the Collection^ Preservation, and Systematic Registration of 

 Photographs of Anthropological Interest. — See Reports, p. 383. 



11. A Rare Anomaly in Human Crania front Kwaiawata Island, New 

 Guinea. By W. L. H. Duckworth, M.D., Sc.D., M.A. 



In the large collection of human crania brought to this country by the 

 Daniels Expedition are thirty-five specimens from the small island known as 

 Kwaiawata, which is situated ofl" the eastern extremity of New Guinea. Among 

 these skulls three instances occurred of a singular anomaly, consisting in the 

 presence of small but sharp spicular projections of bone springing from the 

 margin of the nose. In one caae they are present on both sides, in the others on 

 one side only. 



Such a condition is extremely uncommon, and it is curious to find it with 

 such frequency in a small group of skulls like those from Kwaiawata. No other 

 specimen from New Guinea in the Cambridge Anatomical Collection (whether 

 among the skulls deposited by Major Daniels or in the University series) shows 

 the condition. It occurs in a skull from New Britain, in two instances in crania 

 from prehistoric cemeteries in Peru, and in one instance in a prehistoric British 

 skull. 



From these observations it seems to follow that the anomaly cannot be 

 regarded as the peculiar product of local conditions at Kwaiawata ; for, in fact, it 

 is not absolutely peculiar to that island or even to that part of the world. Dis- 

 sections made by me in the Anatomy School at Cambridge indicate that it is due 

 to bony deposit formed in fibrous bands which in all cases exist in a correspond- 

 ing situation ; but we have no knowledge of the circumstances which determine 

 the transformation of the usual ligamentous tissue into bone, with the production 

 of the peculiar appearances to which reference has just been made. 



12. Observations made on an ^Eunuchoid' Subject in the Cambridge 

 Anatomy School. By W, L. H. Duckworth, M.D., Sc.D., M.A. 



Among the subjects dissected in the Anatomy School in the Lent Term last 

 year was a large male of peculiar aspect. The most striking external features 

 were an almost complete absence of hair (whether of the beard or on other parts 

 of the body) and remarkably diminutive external genitalia. As already 

 remarked, the subject was tall, and also fat, and curiously devoid of the normal 

 (male) muscularity. It must be admitted that the age (returned as eighty-five 

 years) must be taken into account herein. 



Further research was principally directed to the microscopic appearances of 

 the sex-glands, which were very small. They were found to be in a state of 

 arrested development, and there can be little doubt but that the other appear- 

 ances are related to this defect in evolution. 



13. The Races of South Africa. By Di-. F. C. Shrubsall. 



14. Report on Archieological and Ethnographical Researches in Crete. 



See Reports, p. 408. 



