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backwards to counterbalance the facial skeleton and to 

 maintain the visual axis in a horizontal or semi-horizontal 

 plane. 



I have appended to this paper the measurements 

 given by Professor Flower, in his recently issued (1879) 

 ' Catalogue,' of the six Bushman crania in the College of 

 Surgeons' Museum, pp. 246, 247, and also the same 

 measurements, as taken by myself, of the six Bushman 

 crania in the Oxford University Museum. The very close 

 correspondence of the two sets of measurements will strike 

 any one who will compare the columns which give the 

 averages of the two sets. The fact may be expressed in 

 technical language by saying that both lists coincide 

 pretty nearly in showing that, as Professor Flower has 

 phrased it at p. 255, I.e., the Bushman cranium is 

 " mesaticephalic," " orthognathous " (or, at least, " mesogna- 

 thous," my average being 98, which is mesognathous, as 

 against Professor Flower's 97"8, which is just below the 

 limits of mesognathy), " platyrrhine," " microseme," and 

 " microcephalic." 



By a comparison of my measurements, not with those 

 of Professor Flower, but with my own records of the his- 

 tory of each skull, an even more surprising and more im- 

 portant fact, in the way, however, not of coincidence but 

 of the reverse, is brought to light. The most aberrant of 

 the six in the matter of measurements is the very skull 

 about the authenticity of which there is the most perfect 

 certainty. This is the skull presented by Mr. Fairclough, 

 with which were sent the articles specified above, as char- 

 acteristic of the Bushman race. But the skull itself is, 

 in almost every important particular, different from the 

 five other crania here measured with it. Its circumference 

 and cubical capacity, its length, breadth, and height, and 

 their indices, its orbital and nasal indices, are all alike 

 aberrant from the average. It certainly would not have 

 entered into the head of any craniographer to refer this 

 skull to the Bushman variety of our species, unless he had 

 been informed of the character of its accompaniments. A 



