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PRINCIPAL SIR WILLIAM TURNER ON 



me in 1902 a specimen which he had obtained in 1873, from a Papua boy, six to seven 

 years old, at Rubi, Geelvink Bay. It consisted of two locks, each of which was again 



Fig. 9. — New Guinea, Port Moresby. 



Fig. 10. — Locks, New Guinea, Geelvink Bay. 



divided into two (fig. 10). A lock was 18 cm. long (7 inches) and 3 mm. broad. At 

 the scalp end the hairs were curly, but in the lock itself they were twisted into a 



