The Anatomy of a T Y G M I E. ^3 



(a) The Cranium of our Pygmie was round and globous , and it 

 feemed to be three times as big as the Head of a Common Monkey 5 for, 

 that I might the better compare them, I procured the Scekton of a M^;?- 

 ^'j which I found was exaStly the length ot that of our Pygmie : though 

 at the fame time we (hall fee, that in feveral of the Parts, 'twas vaftly 

 different. For meafuring the Head of our Pygme by a Line drawn 

 round from the Nofe, over the OrhU of the Eyes, to the Occiput or hin- 

 der part of the Head, and fo to the Nofe again, I obferved 'twas Thir- 

 teen Inches. The Cranium of the Monkey meafured there only Nine In- 

 ches and a quarter. The girth of the Head of the Pygmie^ from the Ver- 

 tix round by the Ears to the Fertix again , was Eleven Inches and an 

 half : in the Monkey 'twas only Seven Inches and an half. The longi- 

 tudinal Diameter of the Cranium of the Pygmie was Four Inches 5 of the 

 Monkey Two Inches and a quarter. The latitudinal Diameter of the 

 Cranium of the Pygmie was Three Inches and above a quarter 5 of the 

 Monkey a little above Two Inches. The profundity of the Cranium of 

 the Pygmie^ from the Vertix to the Foramen where the Medulla Spinal^' 

 palTes out, was about Three Inches and a quarter 5 in the Monkey Two 

 Inches. So that in the largenefs of the Cranium, the Pygmie much ex- 

 ceeds the Monkey ^ as alfo Apes, and more refembles a Man. 



(b) The Sutures in our Pygmie perfectly refembled thofe In an Humane 

 Cranium ; The Sutura Coronalis, Sagittalis , and Lambdoides being all 

 ferrated or indented very curioufly,as in Man. In the Lambdoidal Suture I 

 obferved Nine Offk. triquetra Wormiana. In the Cranium of a Monkey 1 

 found the Coronary Suture for the mofl: part to be Harmonia^ and only 

 for a little fpace to hz ferrated towards the middle , where it meets the 

 Sagittal Suture. The Sagittal Suture here was indented throughout. The 

 Lambdoidal Suture^^s extended frorn ihcSagittal of each fide for about half 

 znlnch,W2LS ferrated ; then the Suture difappeared,and there was formed 

 here a rifing ridge of the Cranium, which was continued to that Apophyfs 

 which makes the hinder part of the Os Zygomaticum. There was no 

 fuch bony ridge in tht Cranium of the Pygmie. In the Monkey too I faw 

 the Squammom Sutures very plain, tho' Riolan denies them ; which like- 

 wife in our Pygmie was very, apparent. Our Pygmie therefore in the 

 Strufture of the Sutures exadly refembled a Humane Cranium^ and more 

 than Apes and Monkeys do : For in them the Coronary and Lambdoidal 

 Sutures were only in ^3Xt ferrated-^ and they had no Offa triquetra Wor- 

 miana. 



(c) In our Pygmie there was an Os Cribriforme, as in Man ; 'twas a- 

 bout half an Inch long, and a quarter of an Inch broad ; in it I num- 

 bred about Thirty F(?r<2a2?»<? 5 here was iikewife that long ridge, (which 

 is caird Crifa Galli) as in a Man , to which the Dura MaUr was " 

 faftened. 



