Yol. 51.] FROM PALEOLITHIC GR1VELS IN" KENI. 515 



before backwards and possessing a large articular head ; it differs, 

 however, in having a stronger linea aspera and in the larger size of 

 the lesser trochanter. The forms of the tibiae, as shown by their 

 transverse sections, are also much alike in the two skeletons : the 

 measurements of their longer and shorter diameters being almost 

 identical. The height of the skeleton, No. 834, in the Royal College 

 of Surgeons is, as nearly as possible, the same as that calculated for 

 the Galley Hill man ; the femora only differing by at most 3 or 4 

 millimetres. 



Negro skulls are long and narrow (breadth-index •64-*81), but 

 their height is proportionately greater, the index, seemingly, never 

 falling so low as it appears to be in the Galley Hill specimen. There 

 is little or no development of brow-ridges ; the forehead is fairly 

 prominent, and the interorbital width is greater than it seems to 

 have been in the Galley Hill skull. There is some variation in the 

 size and proportions of the negro's molar teeth ; in some, the last 

 lower molar is as large as the two which precede it, but in other 

 cases it is decidedly smaller. The tibiae are more slender and more 

 platycnemic than in the Galley Hill skeleton. 



None of the Australian skulls in the Royal College of Surgeons 

 have so low a breadth-index ('GS-'TZ) as the Galley Hill skull, 

 but the height-index may fall lower ( - 63-'82). In the possession of 

 thickened brow-ridges and receding foreheads, there is a resemblance 

 to our specimen. The teeth vary much in size and proportions ; all 

 the molars are sometimes very large, and the hindermost may be 

 larger than those in front of it, or it may be markedly smaller. 

 The tibiae are not platycnemic, but very similar to those of the 

 Eskimo and Galley Hill skeletons. 



The Fijians exhibit as extreme a condition of dolichocephalism as 

 any known race, their cephalic index falling in some cases as low 

 as -619, while it is not known to rise higher than -714 ; the height- 

 index, however, is proportionately greater, ranging from '72 to "78. 

 The lateral flattening of the parietal region in the Fijian crania 

 makes a nearer approach to that of the Galley Hill man than any 

 other form, excepting perhaps the Melanesian to be presently 

 noticed. The Fijians have strongly developed supraciliary ridges, 

 as large possibly as in the Galley Hill skull ; but the forehead is 

 fuller and more prominent, while the probole is less projecting. 

 The lower molars of the specimen measured (1127, Roy. Coll. Surg.) 

 are more nearly equal in size than in any other instance I have 

 seen (see Table II., p. 509). 



The remarkable Melanesian skull described by Mr. Oldfield Thomas 1 

 is much narrower than that from Galley Hill, its breadth-index 

 being only -619, and seen from above the outlines of the two skulls 

 are very similar. In both the supraciliary ridges are very strongly 

 developed, but the forehead is somewhat fuller in the Melanesian 

 than in the Galley Hill skull ; also in the latter the probole is more 

 prominent and the occiput more flattened below. In a side-view, 



1 Journ. Anthrop. Inst. vol. xiv. (1885) pis. xiv. & xv. 



