ON THE HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN THE SHELL-MOUNDS 557 
in advance of the lower edge of the nasal aperture ; in other words, 
the front contour of the upper jaw sloped downwards and forwards 
at a low angle, so that the face must have had as prognathous a 
character as that of an ordinary Australian. Indeed, the left half of 
an upper manilla (marked A) corresponds with great exactness with 
the corresponding part of a bisected skull of an Australian native in 
the Hunterian Museum. 
The teeth in a lower jaw and part of an upper jaw (marked x) 
are worn down flat, as if by the mastication of hard food. 
The fragment of a frontal bone exhibits strong supraciliary ridges, 
continued across the glabella, and containing well developed frontal 
sinuses. 
That these are very slight materials on which to base any con- 
clusion as to the races to which the remains belonged is obvious 
enough. But, such as the evidence is, it appears to me to be 
altogether opposed to the supposition that the bones belonged to 
either a Malayan race, or to a people allied to the Andaman Islanders. 
On the contrary, I should be inclined to look among the Papuan 
races of New Guinea or New Holland for the nearest allies of the 
men to whom the shell-mound once belonged. 
I am, my dear sir, faithfully yours, 
T. H. HUXLEY. 
Dr. Hun’, Secretary of the Ethnological Society. 
