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Bushman nationality. Further investigation of the dis- 
tribution and non- distribution of this most significant 
suture amongst the several typical races of men, lends 
some additional force to this argument, and is besides not 
a little suggestive as to other views. In the Oxford 
University collection of crania I have not found any traces 
of it amongst 47 Australian, nor amongst our five Tasmanian 
crania, nor amongst our Stone age crania, a series well 
represented here. The only other race of indisputably 
pristine and very pristine habits, in which I have observed 
it to exist, is the Eskimo, and out of a large number of 
such skulls I have only noted it once, in the form of 
bilaterally symmetrical fissure. The other skulls which 
this museum contains possessing this suture either well or 
rudimentarily developed, are six in number. Four are 
presumably either of the Malay or of the Chinese race, 
as two were collected by Captain Elmhirst of the 9th 
Regiment, from the sea-shore of an island in the Chinese 
Seas, out of a great quantity which were lying about un- 
buried, and were supposed to have belonged to Chinese 
pirates, and were finally presented to the University museum 
by the Rev. H. Hansell, Fellow of Magdalen College ; as 
a third was the skull of a female Moro, collected in the 
mountains of Sulu, and presented by Captain Chimmo, 
R.N, ; whilst the fourth was purchased from Mr. Cutter, the 
dealer in Natural History specimens, as being a Borneo 
pirate. The other two are from Ceylon, one being a Tamil 
from Central Ceylon, presented by Mr. B. F. Hartshorne, 
who was himself for a considerable time resident in the 
island, and has written upon its ethnology ; the other being 
a " Malabar." As the absence of this suture from the Zulu 
and Negro series gives additional importance to its pre- 
sence in the Bushman, so its absence, which I have noted 
in a considerable number of Prsearyan skulls, such as those 
of the Coles and Moosahurs, procured for me by William 
Duthoit, Esq., D.C.L., gives additional importance to its 
presence in " Malabars," " Tamils," Malays, and Chinese. 
Of course further research may discover this suture in other 
