1898 - 99 .] Sir W. Turner on Sculptured Skulls, New Guinea. 571 
of the occurrence of brachycephalic skulls in New Guinea,* and 
cites me as supporting the opinion of MM. de Quatrefages and 
Hamy that a Negritic race exists in New Guinea side by side 
with the Papuan race. He attaches a significance to my re- 
marks greater than I intended to convey, for though I referred 
to the opinion of de Quatrefages and Hamy, I did not commit 
myself to the view that brachycephalic crania collected in 
New Guinea were necessarily or exclusively Negritos; nor did 
I cite any of the brachycephalic crania which I had person- 
ally examined as those of Negritos. I did, indeed, say that 
the island was on the west brought into relation with brachy- 
cephalic, short-statured Negritos, and also with brachycephalic 
Malays ; whilst on the east, colonies of brachycephalic Polynesians 
had reached it from the Louisiade Archipelago ; so that it was not 
unlikely that an intermixture of foreign and native elements had 
occurred. I gave Dr Meyer as an authority for the intermixture 
of Malays and Papuans on Waigiou and the smaller Papuan islands 
to the west of New Guinea. 
The observations of Mr Dorsey on the sculptured skulls in the 
Museum at Chicago, and those sculptured crania which I have 
described in this article, do not support the presence of a brachy- 
cephalic people indigenous to the districts where these skulls were 
collected. Eight adult male skulls in the Dorsey collection had 
a mean length-breadth index 71, and the index ranged from 65 to 
74; seven adult female skulls had a mean index 73, and ranged 
from 65 to 77, whilst in the skull of a child the index was 78. In 
my series of ten skulls, as has been stated on p. 565, the mean 
length-breadth index was 72 -6 and the range was from 68 to 77 T. 
No skull was brachycephalic, or in the upper terms of the mesati- 
cephalic group. If the relatively higher index had been the only 
feature of the mesaticephalic cranium, I should not have regarded 
it as in itself expressing a racial difference, but it varied from the 
other adults in the proportions of the nose and orbits, and the 
upper jaw was orthognathic (see p. 566). In several important 
respects, therefore, it differed from the Papuo-Melanesian type. 
Not unlikely its characters may be owing to a crossing of a Papuan 
with an individual of another race, who had been captured in war, 
* Challenger Reports, 1884 . 
