1883.] Developmental Significance of Human Physiognomy. 623 
dation.” The characters of the prominent nose with its elevated 
bridge, is a result of “acceleration,” since it is a superaddition to 
the quadrumanous type from both the standpoints both of pale- 
ontology and embryology.’ The development of the bridge of 
the nose is no doubt directly connected with the development of 
the front of the cerebral part of the skull and ethmoid bone, which 
sooner or later carries the nasal bones with it. 
If we now examine the leading characters of the physiognomy 
of three of the principal human sub-species, the Negro, the Mon- 
golian and the Indo-European, we can readily observe that it is in 
the two first named that there is a predominance of the quadru- 
manous features which are retarded in man; and that the embry- 
onic characters which predominate are those in which man is 
accelerated. In race description the prominence of the edges of 
the jaws is called prognathism, and its absence orthognathism. 
The significance of the two lower race characters as compared 
with those of the Indo-European, is as follows: 
Negro.—Hair crisp (a special character), short (quadrum. accel.); 
prognathous (quadrum. accel.); nose flat, without bridge (quadrum. 
retard.)?; malar bones prominent (quadrum accel.) ; beard short 
—. 
— 
Fi paid : z eii brid: f. nose 
IG. 6.—Profile of a Luchatze negro woman, showing de cient f geo 
and chin, and iloga facial riii: and prognathism. - 7 Fac of of sed 
sg showing flat nose, less prognathism and larger cerebral region, From serp 
See Cope, the Hypoth othesis of Evolution, New “Haven; 1870, p31 
? In the Bochimaus, the fi flat n at bones are codssified with To adjacent elements 
as in the apes (Thulié), 
