566 Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. [sess. 
1884). The mean of the seven adult male skulls was 1245 c.cm., 
whilst the single skull of an adult female was 1150 c.cm. 
The relatively small cranial capacity, the prognathic upper jaw, 
the mesoseme orbit, the mesorliine nasal region, associated, it may 
have been, with the prominent nose so frequently described in the 
natives of the south coast of New Guinea, are all conformable with 
Melanesian characters, and conjoined with those already referred 
to as existing in the cranium proper, justify one in saying that 
these people belonged to the Melanesian race. It seems, however, 
not improbable that skull No. 2 in Table I. may have been due to 
an intermixture of another race, for it was definitely mesaticephalic, 
the jaw was orthognathous, the nose was leptorhine, and the orbit 
was megaseme. 
The series of sculptured skulls described by Mr Dorsey were also 
dolichocephalic in their length-breadth proportions. They also 
belonged to the Melanesian race, and it is not unlikely that they 
may have been collected in or near the district watered by the 
Purari river. 
The Anatomical Museum of the University contains, in addition 
to the skulls above described, several specimens, none of which 
had designs engraved on them, from the south coast or the east 
point of New Guinea, some of which I have described elsewhere. 
In my Challenger Report , Part XXIX., 1884, I gave an account 
of a brachycephalic skull from D’Entrecasteaux Island, and a 
hyper-dolichocephalic skull from Possession Bay, presented by Dr 
Comrie; also a dolichocephalic and a brachycephalic skull from 
Tomara (Domara 1), Cloudy Bay, presented by Mr A. P. Davenport ; 
also a brachycephalic skull from Warrior Island,* presented by Dr 
Cox; and a dolichocephalic skull from Jarvis Island, presented 
by the Rev. Dr Macfarlane. In my Challenger Report , Part 
XLYII. p. 126, 1886, I gave a short description of a hyper-dolicho- 
cephalic][skull which had been collected by Captain Strachan, and 
I have subsequently ascertained that it was got at Turituri, 
a village situated near the mouth of the Katow River, to the 
west of the Ely River. In April 1898 I describedf a dolicho- 
* I figured this skull in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, vol. xiv. 
p. 479, 1880. 
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