280 APPENDIX. 



The evidence for the authenticity of the third Bushman 

 cranium which was in the University Museum previously 

 to the arrival of Mr. Oates's consignment, is even more 

 irrefragable. This cranium was procured for the Univer- 

 sity through the kindness of Mr. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 1 

 from Mr. Fairclough of Cape Town, and with the cranium 

 came a knife, a poison-pot, a quiver, a poisoned arrow, and 

 an ivory wrist-protector which had belonged to the owner of 

 the skull. This skull belonged to a man past the middle 

 period of life, and is remarkable for its absolute height, 

 no less than 5*4 in. ; which, however, falls short of its 

 absolute width, which is no less than 5 - 6 in., by which 

 inferiority the tapeinocephalic or platycephalic character 

 which Mr. Busk ('Journal Ethn. Soc.,' London, Jan. 1871) 

 insisted upon as existing in Bushman crania, is preserved 

 in it as well as in the two other crania just specified. 



Retzius, in a paper first published in Swedish in 

 1856, subsequently in German in Miiller's 'Archiv.' for 

 1858, and fully republished in the posthumously issued 

 (1864) ' Ethnologische Schriften,' p. 149, after saying 

 that he had before him only a single skull of a Hottentot, 

 and the figures which Blumenbach and Sandifort had 

 published of Hottentot and Bushman crania, declares 

 himself unable to detect any essential difference between 

 such skulls and those of true Negroes. His great 

 authority, therefore, should not be quoted to the disfavour 

 of craniological evidence in this or any other similar 

 question, inasmuch as he only speaks, and avowedly, from 

 very scanty materials. 



If we begin our comparison of these two sets of 

 crania by a reference to the great distinction pointed out 

 by Retzius himself, of brachycephalic from dolichocephalic 



one found on this skull were, Mr. Jackson informs me, as a rule, copies irom 

 original labels or letters sent with the specimens. It may be proper to add 

 that both Mr. Jackson and Mr. Robertson are inclined to the opinion that the 

 view first taken by Professor Rolleston of the sex of this skuil was correct, and 

 that both the skulls are females. — Ed.] 



1 [Now Linacre Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy in the 

 University of Oxford. — Ed.] 



