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man tribe from perishing we owe so much. This skull, 
which was brought to England by Mr. Alfred Hughes of 
St. Asaph, bears a label, " Eland's Bun, nr. Schintpriten,^ 
Bushman's skull," and was handed over to me by that 
gentleman at the desire of Dr. Bleek. A second skull 
came into my hands through the kindness of W. G. 
Marshall, Esq. of Colney Hatch, having been entrusted to 
him by George Dunsterville, Esq., of Port Elizabeth, Algoa 
Bay, S. Africa, who was for some years surgeon to the 
hospital at Port Elizabeth. This skull, which, like the 
preceding, belonged to an exceedingly old man, carries the 
following labels : — " From the Transvaal, S. African Re- 
public ;" " Of an original Bosjesman, a tribe of small 
Hottentots, now nearly extinct ; over age ; height, 4 ft. 4 in." 
The evidence for the authenticity of the third Bushman 
cranium which was in the University Museum previously 
to the arrival of Mr. Oates's consignment, is even more 
irrefragable. This cranium was procured for the Univer- 
sity through the kindness of H. N. Moseley, Esq., F.R.S., 
from Mr. Fairclough of Cape Town, and with the cranium 
came a knife, a poison-pot, a quiver, a poisoned arrow, and 
an ivory wrist-protector which had belonged to the owner of 
the skull. This skull belonged to a man past the middle 
period of life, and is remarkable for its absolute height, no 
less than 5j*^y in.; which, however, falls short of its 
absolute width, which is no less than 5 "6 in., by which 
inferiority the tapeinocephalic or platycephalic character 
which Mr. Busk {Journal Ethn. Soc, London, Jan. 1871) 
insisted upon as existing in Bushman crania, is preserved 
in it as well as in the two other crania just specified. 
Retzius, in a paper first published in Swedish in 
1856, subsequently in German in Miiller's Archiv. for 
1858, and fully republished in the posthumously issued 
(1864) EtJinologische Schrifteji, p. 149, after saying that 
he had before him only a single skull of a Hottentot, and 
the figures which Blumenbach and Sandifort had published 
^ Perhaps intended for Eland's Been, near Schietfontein, in the District 
of Carnarvon, Cape Colony. — Ed. 
