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dolichokerkic, and closely corresponded with the condition found in the few 

 Tasmanians previously measured. 



In the lower limb the femur had a degree of platymery, not so marked as in the 

 Maoris and the femora of the cave men. The tibia showed marked platyknemia, and 

 the head was retroverted, characters seen in many black races. The lower end of the 

 tibia and the upper surface of the neck of the astragalus had prolongations of the 

 articular surfaces, seen in those races which rest in the squatting attitude. In the 

 relative lengths of the thigh and leg, of the femur and humerus, of the bones of the 

 shaft of the upper compared with those of the lower limb, the Brussels skeleton 

 corresponded generally with those of black races. There could be no doubt, therefore, 

 that the skeleton in its collective characters was that of a man of a black race, and its 

 association with the skull at once stamped it as a Tasmanian. 



Skull No. 75d. 



No. 75d, a female skull in the Royal Museum, Brussels, marked " Habitante, van 

 Diemen," was also examined, and its measurements are recorded in Table I. It was not 

 quite adult, for the basi-cranial joint was not fully closed and the wisdoms were only 

 partially erupted. 



Norma verticalis. — The cranium was not elongated, but was broad and rounded in 

 outline. The glabello-occipital length was 173 mm., the maximum breadth was 147 mm. 

 and the cephalic index was 85 mm. The skull was therefore definitely brachycephalic. 

 The vault was smooth, rounded from side to side, and entirely devoid of the distinctive 

 areas and depressions in the fronto-parietal region described in No. 310; the sagittal 

 suture was not depressed ; the parietal eminences were moderate ; the parietooccipital 

 region sloped steeply downwards and was somewhat oblique, as if from artificial pres- 

 sure. The occipital squama was flattened, the inion and curved lines were feeble The 

 zygomata were cryptozygous. 



Norma lateralis. — The frontal eminences were prominent ; the lower forehead was 

 almost vertical ; the glabella and superciliary ridges were very feeble ; the upper border 

 of the orbit was sharp : a combination of characters which, in part at least, were without 

 doubt sexual. The torus supraorbitalis was absent, and the supraorbital trigone was 

 only feebly indicated. The nasion was not depressed. The nasal bones were keeled, 

 projected forwards, and formed an obtuse angle of 74° with the lower frontal. The nose 

 was therefore very prominent, and the nasio-malar index 110'4 was pro-opic. The 

 parietal longitudinal arc was the longest, 135 mm., and the frontal and occipital arcs, 

 120 mm., were equal. The basi-bregmatic diameter, 140 mm., was less than the 

 greatest breadth, and the vertical index 80 '9 was less than the cephalic. 



Norma facialis. — The maxillo-nasal spine was long and pointed; the floor of the 

 nose was separated from the incisive region by a margo-infranasalis. The nasal region 

 w&B long, relatively narrow, and leptorhine, the nasal index being 46; the complete 



