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man tribe from perishing we owe so much. This skull, 

 which was brought to England by Mr. Alfred Hughes of 

 St. Asaph, bears a label, " Eland's Been, nr. Schietfontein, 1 

 Bushman's skull," and was handed over to me by that 

 gentleman at the desire of Dr. Bleek. A second skull 

 came into my hands through the kindness of Mr. W. 

 G. Marshall, of Colney Hatch, having been entrusted to 

 him by Mr. George Dunsterville, of Port Elizabeth, Algoa 

 Bay, S. Africa, who was for some years surgeon to the 

 hospital at Port Elizabeth. This skull, which, like the 

 preceding, belonged to an exceedingly old man, carries 

 the following labels : — " From the Transvaal, S. African 

 Republic;" "Of an original Bosjesman, a tribe of small 

 Hottentots, now nearly extinct; over age ; height, 4 ft. 4 in." 2 



1 [In the first edition of the present work the name of this locality was 

 incorrectly given as "Eland's Bun, nr. Schintpriten," the original label in a 

 German handwriting having been misread by Professor Rolleston. Mr. W. 

 Hatchett Jackson — to whom, with Mr. C. Robertson, the rearrangement of 

 the collection of skulls at the Museum was entrusted on Professor Rolleston's 

 death — assures me, after a careful examination of Dr. Bleek's label (since 

 destroyed), made by himself and Professor Thomas of Auckland University 

 College, New Zealand, that the reading above given in the text, which was 

 originally suggested in an editorial note in the first edition, is correct. Schiet- 

 fontein is a small town in the District of Carnarvon, Cape Colony. — Ed.] 



2 [Mr. Jackson is of opinion that there is no conclusive evidence to show 

 that, with either of these skulls which are essentially alike, Professor Rolleston 

 received any information as to sex. It is confirmatory of this view that in his 

 manuscript notes he uses the word ' probably ' in characterizing them, and 

 actually modified or changed his original opinions about them. From the 

 papers he has left behind him at the Museum it appears that in the first 

 instance he considered the former to be doubtfully male. Any doubt, how- 

 ever, which he may have originally entertained, must have been removed, as 

 is shown by a subsequent addition to his papers as well as by the statement in 

 the text above. Remarks of a similar kind apply to the skull presented by 

 Mr. Dunsterville, the original labels on which seem to have been lost or 

 destroyed by Professor Rolleston, the only reference to them extant being 

 found in the words given above between inverted commas, and similarly 

 quoted in his manuscripts. The label found on this skull at Professor 

 Rolleston's death was in his own handwriting, and bore the word 'female,' 

 as well as the name of race and donor, together with date and locality. It 

 appears, therefore, that at one time he believed it— on whatever grounds — to 

 be a female, though he subsequently altered his view, as is shown by the 

 passage referring to the sex of the skull in the text, which was written and 

 printed (though not published) shortly before his death, whilst a similar 

 alteration of opinion is traceable also in his manuscripts. Such labels as the 



