R. Crewdson Benington 
331 
Marked parietal eminences occurred in two males (19, 46) of the Congo series. 
Parietal depression in one male (14) of the 1864 Gaboon series. 
Superior occipital bulging was found in one female (10) of the Gaboon 1864 
series and in seven males (7, 8, 18, 40 A, 50, 55, 69). It was not recorded as 
occurring in the Gaboon 1880 series, but in the Congo we find it in one non-adult 
(12) and in four males (20, 33, 39, 51). 
A markedly retreating forehead occurs in one male (55) of the 1864 series; in 
one female (80) and three males (26, 40, 44) of the Congo series. A prominent 
glabella was only recorded in one case a male (55) of the Congo series. A markedly 
'infantile' forehead was noted in one female (35) of the 1864 Gaboon series. 
Supra-orbital ridges were recorded in two males (45, 59) of the Gaboon 1864 
series. Supra-mastoid ridges in two males (45, 53) of the same series, and in 
thirteen males of the Congo series (24, 26, 27, 29, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 43, 
48, 61). 
Subnasal prognathism of a marked character was found in five females (4, 5, 9, 
23, 78) and eight males (1, 32, 33, 37, 44, 45, 83, 89) of the Gaboon 1864 series ; 
in two females (12 b , 21) and three males (4, 28, 35) of the 1880 series. It occurred 
in one female (14) and fourteen males (17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 41, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 57, 
63, 64) of the Congo series. This negro characteristic therefore is to be found in 
a marked condition in 21°/ 0 of males but only 9% of females. Markedly fiat and 
broad noses were especially noticed in one female (87) and twelve males (26, 28, 
29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 48, 49, 59) of the Congo series. The base of nose was 
depressed in two males (31, 36) of the Gaboon 1864 and in two males (28, 31) 
of the Gaboon 1880 series, or in 1 °/ c of females and 14 °/ G of males we find 
flattening or depression chiefly of the bridge*. Special peculiarities in the arrange- 
ment of the nasal bones (see p. 319) were noted in four females of the 1864 series 
(21, 29, 39, 81) and in five males (3, 11, 25, 59, 61). In the Congo series nasal 
peculiarities occur in four females (65, 67, 70, 83) and five males (29, 37, 42, 49, 59). 
Rounding of the margin of the pyriform aperture, a peculiar negro character, does 
not occur in a marked manner in many of the Congo-Gaboon series. It was 
recorded especially in one male (43) of the Gaboon 1864 series and in two females 
(79, 80) of the Congo series. Many of the peculiarities in the negro nose thus 
recorded may appear slight, but the general impression formed is that the Negro 
nose is subject to more variations than the European. 
(ii) Anomalies of the Sutures. Only a few crania are recorded as metopic, 
e.g. one male (34) and one non-adult (14) of the Congo series and one female (74) 
of the Gaboon 1864 series. The spheno-occipital synchondrosis was not obliterated 
in three young females (2, 20, 70) of the 1864 series and a remarkable lateral 
deviation of the posterior part of the sagittal suture in a female (75) of the same 
* This is an individual anatomical confirmation of the difference indicated on p. 318 above, that the 
negro females have a higher mesodacryal index j3 than the males. 
