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in an equal number of European crania. Indeed, in all 
but one of these crania the alisphenoid is wide from before 
backwards, as though to furnish adequate lodgment for 
the temporo-sphenoidal lobe of the cerebrum, which, we 
know, alike from Gratiolet {Memoire sur les Plis Cere- 
braux, p. 97), and Professor John Marshall {Phil. Trans., 
MDCCCLXIV, p. 5 I o), to take a large development in the 
Bushman race.^ 
I have in the next place to draw attention to a 
striking qualitative or morphological peculiarity observable 
in no less than three out of my six Bushman crania ; this 
being the presence either of a perfect, or of a rudimentary 
division of the malar bone into two distinct parts. The 
skull presented by Dr. Bleek presents us with a perfect 
rectangular suture, bilaterally symmetrical, as is usually 
the case with this suture both when it is and when it is, 
as here, not, rudimentary. In the two skulls, 788^ and 
788^, collected by Mr. Frank Gates, the suture is rudi- 
mentary, being represented in each skull by a bilaterally 
symmetrical fissure running horizontally forwards from the 
zygomatico-malar articulation.^ When I add to these ob- 
servations the fact that similar sutures have not within my 
knowledge and research been observed in other African 
crania of any of the varieties living on that continent, it 
will be seen that the presence of them in these skulls goes 
a considerable way, when coupled with other considera- 
tions, towards making it pretty certain that they were of 
^ For the relation of the ahsphenoid, squamous, and frontal, see Broca, 
Instructions Craniologiques, pp. 26, 27, 1875 ; and Gruber, Ueber die Verbindung 
der Schiifenheinschuppe mit dem Stirnbein. Mem. de V Academie Imperiale des 
Sciences de St. Fetersbotirg, torn. xxi. No. 5, 1874. Hermann Schlocker, Ueber 
die Anomalieen des Pterio7i ; Inaugural Dissertation Zum. Univ. Dorpat. 1879. 
It is right, however, to add that the skull of the Bushwoman whose brain 
Professor Marshall has described, I.e., had the squamous of the left side joined 
to the frontal, and that with obliteration of the suture ; and that though Dr. 
Williamson has not recorded the presence of this junction in any of the three 
Bushman crania described by him in his Catalogue of the Army Medical 
Museum, 1867, he has noted it in two out of the seven skulls of the closely 
affined Hottentot race. 
^ Similarly rudimentaiy sutures are observable in several of the Bushman 
crania in the Royal College of Surgeons of London. 
