Macalister — On Horned Men in Africa. 773 



The information thus gathered hy the indefatigable researches of 

 Dr. Allan is of very great interest. Exostoses, we know, are not at all 

 uncommon in the vicinity of the antrum, and the one figured hy Mr. 

 Hilton (6-'«y's Sosp. Reports, vol. i.) is not unlike one of those shown 

 in the photograph. A similar exostosis is described by Samuel Cooper 

 in the London Medical Gatette, vol. iv., p. 369. 



That outgrowths here may be really race characters is not to be 

 entirely ridiculed, for the neighbouring malar bone, which here, accord- 

 ing to Dr. 0'E,eilly's description, participates in the swelling, certainly 

 shows certaia race peculiarities, such as the bigger Tuberositas malaris 

 of the Mongolians, and the Processus marginalis, whose race peculiari- 

 ties have been pointed out by Werfer [Bas Wangenhein des Menschen, 

 Tubingen, 1869); while Hilgendorf describes a separation of the 

 malar into two parts as common among the Japanese {Mittlieilung . der 

 deutscJien Gesellscliaft filr Natur-und-Voncerhmde, Ostasiens, 1873, p. 1). 

 The examination of this region in the fifty Afi'ican crania of our Uni- 

 versity Museum shows that while in one Congo negro there is a little 

 fulness in this region, there is no trace of any enlargement in any of 

 the others. 



The Akim negroes speak a negro dialect of the Egwee class, and 

 are of the same race as the Fantees and Ashantis, of which race I have 

 several crania, notices of which I hope to be able to lay before the 

 Academy on a future occasion. 



The letter formerly received from Dr. Allan is as follows : — 



' ' Madeira, 

 ''Felrumy 2Qt]i, 1881. 



"Deab, De. Macalistee, — I send you a few lines relative to our 

 conversation of 16th inst. I have learned a few authentic facts en 

 voyage about the ' horned men ' from Captain O'Brien of the Houssa 

 Force, West Africa. The statement made here is certified below by 

 him. A Captain Hay (now in Tobago, W. I.) had stated that he had 

 seen these men at Akim. We had one of the men en route for Eng- 

 land, but he refused to proceed eventually. Captain O'Brien saw this 

 man at Elmina, and describes him as follows : — ' He was, as regards 

 colour, hair, &c., similar to an ordinary native. The horns occupied 

 the malar region, were about two inches in length, their direction 

 being, I believe, fi'om his description, upwards, outwards and for- 

 wards, non-movable, and covered with skin,' " 



The certificate of Captain O'Brien was as follows : — 



' ' I certify I have seen a man answering to the above description 

 exactly, and said to be the same person Captain L. Hay alluded to. 



'' Paul D. O'Beiek." 



