XII EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



frontal bone carried high up the dome, though not in the same degree. 

 There is no very striking difference between tb< toad east 



coast of Africa. Those of Oriental Negroes, and < , who 



are not an unmixed race, have the same typical structure, though more 

 debased ; the Tasmanian being the lowest, with perhaps the exception of 

 the Bushman. 



PLATE III. 



Of the beardless type, may be observed the shorter and more quadran- 

 gular cranial form, with still more facial protrusion ; and, in the most 

 northern partially mixed races, the very contracted occiput is remark- 

 able. 



PLATE IV. 



Shows the regular oval form of the most intellectual type : more 

 breadth of forehead ; prolonged expansion backward-;, and nearly vertical 

 facial angle. The regular dome, as seen in the finest races of mankind — 

 ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, Greeks, Circassians, and Ai il -. [a most 

 European, a slight modification from a Finnic source may be traced. 



PLATE V. 



Proves the typical identity of the Oriental Negro with those of Mozam- 

 bique and Guinea. 



PLATE VL— Figs. 1 and 2. 



Exhibits profiles of Indo-Chinese, or the sub-type of what we take to 

 be the Malay races, where, in the vertical profile of one, we have a Cau 

 casian predominance, in the other more Papua blood, both in some degree 

 pat-taking of the Xegro coloring, but with the hard, black straight hair 

 of a Mongolic intermixture. In the Australasian Islands, many customs 

 remain, which attest that a portion of the American people derives its 



