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prepared skulls from Eubiana, presented ty Dr. Bennett ; three de- 

 scribed in the " Thesaurus Craniorum " from the Davis Collection from 

 Makira, Christoval, brought home by Dr. Mac Gillivray of H. M. S. 

 "Herald." One in the same collection from Guadalcanar ; and one 

 from Eubiana; as well as one in the Dublin College of Surgeons' 

 Museum from Guadalcanar, for the measurements of which I am in- 

 debted to Mr. Abraham. Of these all but one are males ; and the 

 measurements I have given in the Table at the end (p. 780). 



Skull No. 1 is that of a fisherman or Bauro, a phaenozygous, 

 hypsidolichocephalic cranium, microcephalic, platyrhine, micro-seme, 

 prognathous, with very large everted alveolar arches ; pentagonal in 

 norma occipitalis. The sides of the foramen magnum have been 

 broken ; its hinder margin is, however, left at one spot ; but the 

 right side is cleanly cut away. The squama occipitis is symmetrically 

 compressed immediately above and behind the asterion, and that region 

 is tumid, especially on the left side. The mastoid process itself is 

 small, but the whole mastoid portion of the temporal is dilated, and the 

 paramastoid internal to the digastric groove is as prominent as the 

 mastoid itself. The tympanic is very thick, especially below and 

 behind ; the basilar suture is closed ; the occipital condyles unsymme- 

 trical ; the inion weak, rounded ; the spheno-parietal suture is very 

 short — 4mm. on right, 5mm. on left; it is depressed on both sides, 

 and placed very obliquely, rising forwards : the glenoid cavity is 

 narrow; the outside of the external pterygoid plate on the left is pro- 

 longed into a small processus pterygoideus tertius, which margins the 

 ptery go -maxillary fossa. The nasal bones are separate, narrow above, 

 widening a little below, perforated by small foramina; the fronto- 

 nasal sutures is above the fronto maxillary ; the lachrymal has no 

 hamulus, and there is a post-lachrymal and pre-ethmoidal constriction 

 of the lachrymo-ethmoidal suture. There is a sutura infraorbitalis verti- 

 calis on both sides, to which the malar extends on the right side ; and a 

 deep canine fossa. There is an infraorbital eminence at the end of the 

 malar on the right side ; and the incisive portion of the alveolar arch 

 is nearly horizontal. The greatest breadth of the arch at second molar 

 tooth is 63 mm. ; the palatine length is 46mm. 



Skull No. 2 is that of a Bushman, and it contrasts in many 

 respects with the former ; it is also a male, but is widely ovate in 

 norma verticalis; nearly quadrilateral in norma occipitalis: it has a 

 spear-wound above the lambda, and is very narrow in the forehead, 

 88 mm.; it is mesati-tapeino-cephalic, meso-cephalic, and was probably 

 phaenozygous, but has lost both zygomatic arches ; it is also micro- 

 seme, leptorhine, and prognathous, but without the prominent incisive 

 arches of the former. The basilar suture is open, but the last molar 

 on each side has been cut. The whole skull is flat-topped, with 

 prominent parietal eminences, which are unsymmetrical, the right 

 being very much farther back. The occiput also is more prominent 

 backwards on the right than on the left side ; the spheno-parietal 



