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with wide bases of attachment, and as many as three in each meatus ; in the other they 
were more pedunculated, two in one meatus, three in the other. In two skulls the left 
outer incisor was absent and its socket absorbed ; possibly these teeth had been extracted 
at the time of puberty. 
New Guinea. 
I gave, on p. 89 of the first part of the Report, a table of measurements of crania 
from New Guinea, in the Anatomical Museum of the University. During the present 
year I received through a former pupil, Dr. F. Ashwell of Sidney, a cranium which had 
been collected by Captain Strachan, who has just returned, I understand, from the 
interior of New Guinea. It had obviously been suspended in a hut, for a loop of cane 
was attached to it, and the bones were brown and discoloured with smoke. A cord of 
twisted vegetable fibre had been tied transversely around the necks of the condyles 
of the lower jaw, which bone had doubtless been worn as a bracelet. All the permanent 
teeth had erupted except the four wisdoms, and as the basi-cranial synchondrosis was 
also not closed, the skull was probably that of a youth about 16 years old. 
The measurements are recorded in Table XVI., from which it will be seen that the 
skull is hyper-dolichocephalic, the index being only 65 ; the vertical index is tapeino- 
cephalic, 69*4, and it conforms with what I have previously shown to be a character of 
the dolichocephalic people of New Guinea, in the basi-bregmatic height exceeding the 
transverse diameter. The parietal longitudinal arc is considerably longer than either the 
frontal or occipital arcs, and gives to the skull that parieto-dolichocephaly which I have 
elsewhere stated to be a not unfrequent race character of the Papuans. In its gnathic 
index the skuU is mesognathous, in its nasal index mesorhine, in its orbital index 
microseme, and in its palato -maxillary index dolichuranic. In the right pterion is an 
epipteric bone, and the squamous-temporal also articulates with the frontal ; the left 
pterion is normal. I have not definite information of the exact locality in which this 
skull was collected, but if it came from the interior, it points to a strongly marked 
dolichocephalic people in that portion of New Guinea. 
In the Table already referred to on p. 89, I gave the measurements of a skull from 
Jarvis or Jervis Island, Torres Strait, collected by the Eev. S. Macfarlane. The same 
gentleman also forwarded to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, a 
collection of forty-nine crania which, like my specimen, were procured from the Sacred 
House of the Jervis Islanders, and these have recently been described by ]\Ir. Oldfield 
Thomas.^ These crania, like the one I had previously described, had been smeared with 
a red pigment. Like it they were dolichocephalic, and the mean index of fourteen adult 
1 Journ. Anthropol. Inst., vol. xiv. p. 328, 1885. 
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