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that although the Chinese are in general platyrhinous, they 
are so in a less degree than the Hottentots. 
In the second place, the convexity of the facial surface of 
the upper jaw is met with more frequently in the Hottentots 
than in the Chinese. 
The peculiarity of having the angles of the lower jaw curved 
outwards, cannot be regarded as a race-character. I have met 
with it pretty frequently in the Caucasian crania of the Yrolik 
Museum. It must he noticed, moreover, that it exists princi- 
pally in the crania of men. The crania of women — Hottentot, 
Chinese, and Caucasian alike — only show it rarely and in a 
very feeble degree. 
M. de Honing has studied the anomalies of the sutures of the 
temporal region in the Chinese crania of the Leyden Museum, 
namely, the frontal apophysis of the squamous portion of the 
temporal and the sutural bones developed in the squamous 
suture which is situated towards the frontal bone. Similar 
relations, to which M. Virchow is inclined to attach an anthro- 
pological significance, were altogether wanting in the Hottentot 
crania which I have had the opportunity of seeing, nor do 
Messrs. Barnard Davis and Wyman (loc. cit.) mention them in 
the Hottentots examined by them. 
In forty-one Caucasian crania in the Vrolik Museum, I have 
nine times found a sutural bone in the squamous suture, namely, 
eight times on one side only, and once (in the cranium of an 
Englishwoman) on both sides. Two of the Caucasian crania 
were stenocrotaphic. In none have I seen a true frontal apo- 
physis of the squamous portion of the temporal. 
The frequency of this sutural hone in the Caucasian crania 
of the Vrolik Museum is evidently quite a matter of chance. 
May not the frequency of the frontal apophysis of the squamous 
portion of the temporal of the Chinese studied by M. de Honing 
be in the same case ? 
I must here express my regret that I have not been able to 
study all that has been written about Hottentot crania. It is 
therefore very probable that I have neglected some important 
characters already noticed by other authors. 
Van der Iloeven was of opinion that the analogy between 
the Hottentots and Chinese to which Barrow had called atten- 
tion, only extended to the colour and the direction of the eyes.* 
Although the similarity in colour and general appearance 
seems to me to be a fact of very great importance, I think that 
the cranial characters, in spite of certain differences, equally 
authorizes us to admit a close affinity between the Hottentots 
and Chinese. 
* Tijdschr. v. Nat. Geschied, tome iii. p. 153. 
