282 Prof. Macalister, On a Collection of Crania [April 29, 



(3) On a Collection of Crania from the North-West Provinces 

 of India. By Prof. A. Macalister, F.R.S. 



The University Museum has received from Professor Havelock 

 Charles, of Calcutta, a most interesting and valuable series of 

 Crania, including twenty-three from the North-West Provinces. I 

 must in the first instance return my best thanks to Professor 

 Charles for his kindness in supplying a much-felt want in our 

 University Collection. 



There are many features of interest presented by these crania, 

 and they are well worthy of a careful description. As, however, 

 the pressure of official work has prevented me from giving the 

 time and labour necessary for the doing of this work I have asked 

 Mr Corner, B.A., of Sidney Sussex College, to undertake the task. 

 This he has willingly and skilfully done, and I therefore desire to 

 present to the Society his monograph in place of my own. I have 

 gone over some of the critical part of his work, but his measure- 

 ments have been done so carefully that they have needed no 

 revision. 



Mr Raymond Horton-Smith, B.A. of St John's College has 

 kindly examined the crania from Bengal, and has with great 

 judgment and skill made all the measurements necessary and has 

 drawn up a most careful and useful account of them. I have 

 added his paper also, which supplements the description of the 

 other series. 



On Crania from the North-West Provinces of India. By 

 E. M, Corner,' B.A., B.Sc. Lond,, Scholar of Sidney Sussex 

 College. 



At Professor Macalister's suggestion I made an examination of 

 the skulls in the Anatomical Museum from the North- West Pro- 

 vinces of India. There are twenty-three of these. The age, 

 caste and sex are recorded upon each as well as the place from 

 which it came. Fourteen of these skulls come from Panjab ; 

 five from Patna; one each from Peshawur, Kabul and near the 

 Khyber Pass. And again one, indefinitely, from the North- West 

 Provinces of India. Of this last skull the caste is not recorded. 

 It is taken into this paper in order to complete the set of skulls. 

 The Patna series do not strictly speaking belong to the North- 

 West Provinces. 



