ETHNOLOGY. 283 



Trans.,' 1864, p. 510), to take a large development in 

 the Bushman race. 1 



I have in the next place to draw attention to a 

 striking qualitative or morphological peculiarity observable 

 in no less than three out of my six Bushman crania ; this 

 being the presence either of a perfect or of a rudimentary 

 division of the malar bone into two distinct parts. The 

 skull presented by Dr. Bleek presents us with a perfect 

 rectangular suture, bilaterally symmetrical, as is usually the 

 case with this suture, both when it is and when it is, as 

 here, not, rudimentary. In the two skulls, ?88d and 788/, 

 collected by Mr. Frank Oates, the suture is rudimentary, 

 being represented in each skull by a bilaterally symmetrical 

 fissure running horizontally forwards from the zygomatico- 

 malar articulation. 2 When I add to these observations 

 the fact that similar sutures have not within my knowledge 

 and research been observed in other African crania of any 

 of the varieties living on that continent, it will be seen 

 that the presence of them in these skulls goes a consider- 

 able way, when coupled with other considerations, towards 

 making it pretty certain that they were of Bushman 

 nationality. Further investigation of the distribution and 

 non-distribution of this most significant suture amongst 

 the several typical races of men, lends some additional 

 force to this argument, and is besides not a little suggestive 

 as to other views. In the Oxford University collection 



1 For the relation of the alisphenoid, squamous, and frontal, see Broca, 

 'Instructions Craniologiques,' 1875, PP- 2 ^> 27, Gruber, ' Ueber die Ver- 

 bindung der Schafenbeinschuppe mit dem Stirnbein,' Mem. de l'Academie 

 Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, torn. xxi. 1874, no. 5, and Hermann 

 Schlocker, ' Ueber die Anomalieen des Pterion,' Inaugural-Dissertation zur 

 Univ. Dorpat, 1879. It is right, however, to add that the skull of the Bush- 

 woman whose brain Professor Marshall has described, I.e., had the squamous 

 of the left side joined to the frontal, and that with obliteration of the suture ; 

 and that though Dr. Williamson has not recorded the presence of this junction 

 in any of the three Bushman crania described by him in his ' Catalogue of the 

 Army Medical Museum,' 1867, he has noted it in two out of the seven skulls 

 of the closely affined Hottentot race. 



2 Similarly rudimentary sutures are observable in several of the Bushman 

 crania in the Royal College of Surgeons of London. 



