REPORT ON THE HUMAN CRANIA. 
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Twenty specimens were from North Australia. Of these in only two, a female from 
Cape York, and a male from Alexandra Land, were the vertical indices less than the 
cephalic, in another, a female from Port Essington, these two indices were equal, but in 
the remaining seventeen from Cape York, Arnhem Land, Camp in Heaven, 1 Raffles Bay, 
and Port Essington the vertical index exceeded the cephalic, and of these, thirteen were 
probably males and four females. 
Three specimens were from North-west Australia. In none was the vertical index less 
than the cephalic ; in one, a male, from the De Grey river, these indices were equal ; in 
one from Roebuck Bay and in one from Dampier Land, both of which were probably 
males, the vertical index exceeded the cephalic. 
Twenty-one specimens were from Queensland. In none was the vertical index less 
than the cephalic. In four, two males and two females, these indices were equal, and of 
these one was from Port Curtis, and another from Curtis Island (lat. 23°, long. 151°). 
In seventeen, all apparently males, the vertical index was greater than the cephalic, and 
these were from Moreton Bay, Rockhampton, and the interior of the colony. 2 
Twenty-six specimens were from New South Wales. Seven of these, two males and 
five females, had the vertical index less than the cephalic, one was from Bathurst, one from 
the coast near the southern part of the colony, and the rest from parts of the colony not 
exactly specified. In three males from Swan Hill, Port Jackson, and the Murrum- 
bidgee these two indices were equal. In sixteen, nine males and seven females, the 
vertical index was greater than the cephalic ; these specimens were from the Riverina, 
Mudgee, Macquarrie, Swan Hill, Lower Murray, Maitland, M’Leay, Port Stephen, 
and Sydney districts. 
Nine skulls were from West Australia. One, a male, from Perth, had the vertical 
index less than the cephalic ; two males from King George’s Sound and Swan River 
had these indices equal ; five males and one female from Eucla, Cape Leeuwin, King 
George’s Sound, and Swan River had the vertical index greater than the cephalic. 
Victoria furnished twenty-eight crania. In six, two males and four females, the 
vertical index was less than the cephalic, and these skulls came from Gipps Land, 
Western Victoria, Lake Timboon, and Port Fairy. In one, a male, from Hobsons Bay, 
these two indices were equal. In twenty-one specimens, fourteen males and seven 
females, from Port Philip, Western Port, the Murray, Port Fairy, the Upper Yarra, the 
neighbourhood of Melbourne, Piccaninny Creek, Gobo Island, Lake Timboon, Benalla, and 
the Wannon River, the vertical index exceeded the cephalic. 
1 I give this locality on the authority of MM. de Quatrefages and Hamy. I have not been able to find the name 
marked on any map to which I have had access. 
2 In addition to the specimens from Queensland referred to in the text, I may state that ten skulls, all with one 
exception, from Bowen in that colony, are in the Godeffroy Museum, Hamburg. I observe from Dr. Krause’s measurements 
that in six males and three females, the height is greater than the breadth, and in one female only is the reverse to be 
noted, the breadth in that specimen being 133 mm., the height 130 mm. 
