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A NAmiiALJtiT'S WANDERINGS. 



APPENDIX TO PART IV. 



1, On the CllAKtAL CHARACTERS of the NATlTEfl <;/ TlMOB-LAUT. By J. G, 



OABuaN, F.Z.S. ; MemlK Anthiup, Inst,; Aaat. Assist. Royal 



College or Surgeons; LeeturtT oti Comparative Anatomy, Charing 

 Cross Hospilal. 



Ik the followinjr coromnnication I intend to direct attention to tlie 

 cliaractcrs present e<l Ijy b series of skulls from Timor-) ant, a gronp of 

 small islands situated lietween New Guinea and Anstralia, collected and 

 brought home by Mr. H. Forbes, Before doing bo, it will lie well to 

 recapitnilate briefij* the chief charact<?rs of the inhahifants of the island 

 observed by Mr. Forbes, and described by him in a paper read last 

 F^ion before this inKtitnto, and published in the Josirnat (toI, xiii., 

 p. 8, et seq,)* 



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The osteolopical remains now to be described were obtained from the 

 island of Larat, and consist of a series of eluven skulls and crania. Of 

 these, nine are adult, one that of a young man of about twenty years of 

 age, and one that of a child. 



Four of the skulls appear to l>e those of males, and six tlioise of women. 

 The skull of the chihl is not snihciently developed to indicate its sex. 

 The male skulls are all of a round form — bi-oad in pro|mrtion to the 

 ant£To-|K>sterior length, and re,semble one another in general appearance. 

 Of the females, five corres^iond in form to the male skulls, in iieing short 

 ami broad, but the sixth differs jnarfeedly from the others^ in l*eing 

 narrow antero-jwsteriorly in proportion to its breadth. The form of tlio 

 ohUd's cranium resemble* closely that of this last skulL The cranium of 

 the child has been excluded from the various meaanrements and averages 

 given in the snbjoined table, now to be discossed, but that of the young 

 man is inclnded, as I was ttnwiHing to diminish the series by rejecting 

 it, especially as it seems to have attained it« full development^ except in 

 a few resjtoets which wiU be noted ; thongh I am aware that it is contrary 

 to custom to include any sktiH in which the basilar suture is not umted. 

 The male and female round skulk are separated from one another^ and 

 the tatter are grouped apart from the long narrow female skull, many of 

 the characters of which are entirely different from those of the other 

 females. 



Capmity, — The avem??© cranial capacity of the fonr male skulls 

 measured with shot according to Broca's method, is 1607 c-c., or 47 cc. 



• Afi this has heen fully done in the foregoing pages, it is tmnccessary to 

 recapitulate t\mm here ; consequently', this parftgraph js omitted from this 

 reprint u( Dr. Gan*'')n's valuable paper. — H, O. F, 



