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of crania I have not found any traces of it amongst forty- 

 seven Australian, nor amongst our five Tasmanian crania, 

 nor amongst our Stone Age crania, a series well represented 

 here. The only other race of indisputably pristine and 

 very pristine habits in which I have observed it to exist 

 is the Eskimo, and out of a large number of such skulls I 

 have only noted it once, in the form of bilaterally sym- 

 metrical fissure. The other skulls which this museum 

 contains possessing this suture either well or rudimentarily 

 developed are six in number. Four are presumably either 

 of the Malay or of the Chinese race, as two were collected 

 by Captain Elmhirst of the 9th Regiment, from the sea- 

 shore of an island in the Chinese Seas, out of a great 

 quantity which were lying about unburied, and were sup- 

 posed to have belonged to Chinese pirates, and were finally 

 presented to the University Museum by the Rev. H. 

 Hansell, Fellow of Magdalen College ; as a third was the 

 skull of a female Moro, collected in the mountains of Sulu, 

 and presented by Captain Chimmo, R.N. ; whilst the fourth 

 was purchased from Mr. Cutter, the dealer in Natural 

 History specimens, as being that of a Borneo pirate. 

 The other two are from Ceylon, one being a Tamil from 

 Central Ceylon, presented by Mr. B. F. Hartshorne, who 

 was himself for a considerable time resident in the island, 

 and has written upon its ethnology ; the other being a 

 Malabar. As the absence of this suture from the Zulu 

 and Negro series gives additional importance to its pre- 

 sence in the Bushman, so its absence, which I have noted 

 in a considerable number of Prsearyan skulls, such as 

 those of the Coles and Moosahurs, procured for me by 

 Mr. William Duthoit, D.C.L., gives additional import- 

 ance to its presence in Malabars, Tamils, Malays, and 

 Chinese. Of course further research may discover this 

 suture in other races of mankind. As the matter stands 

 at present I am tempted to think that there is possibly 

 some significance in its having been noticed in the 

 Eskimo, the Bushman, in certain races of the Eastern 

 Archipelago, and in Tamil skulls, as well as in the fact of 



