REPORT OX THE HUMAH CRANIA. 
89 
of these indices would appear to prevail. From MM. de Quatrefages and Hamy’s 
twenty-fourth table, which includes Dr. Meyer’s Rubi and Kordo crania, along with 
specimens from Dorey, Salwetti, Wandessa, and Jobie, the mean vertical index, except in 
the Jobie skull, exceeded the cephalic, and a similar relation is shown in the male Arfaks, 
though not in the female, measured in their twenty-fifth table. Eight dolichocephalic 
skulls in Dr. Comrie’s collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons had the 
vertical index greater than the cephalic, in one it was less, and in two mesaticephali 
these indices were ecpial. In three of the five Erroob crania measured by Prof. Flower 
the vertical index exceeded the cephalic. In the pure Papuan male crania from Warrior 
Table XVI. — New Guinea. 
( 
W anior 
Jarvis 
Possession 
D’Entre- 
Tomara, 
Tomara, 
Collection, . . . 
Island, 
Island, 
Bay, Dr 
casteaux 
Cloudy 
Cloudy 
Torres St. 
Torres St. 
Comrie. 
Island, 
Bay. 
Bay. 
{ 
Dr C. 
Age, .... 
Adult. 
Adult. 
Adult. 
Adult. 
Adult. 
Child, 6 or 7. 
Sex, .... 
M. 
M. 
F. 
Cubic capacity, 
1534 
1230 
1430 ap 
Glabello-occipital length, 
175 
178 
178 
169 
179 
172 
Ophryo-occipital ,, . 
173 
176 
178 
170 
178 
172 
Basi-bregmatic height, 
137 
130 
136 
125 
Vertical Index, 
78 
73 
80-5 
73 
Minimum frontal diameter, 
103 
90 
90 
96 
94 
87 
Stephanie ,, 
122 
105 
106 
110 
104 
114 
Asterionic ,, 
120 
106 
101 
103 
100 
108 
Greatest parietal breadth, 
154 
130-s 
1226' 
136s 
124p 
142 p 
Cephalic Index, 
88 
73 
68-5 
80-5 
69 
82-6 
Horizontal circumference, 
515 
494 
488 
489 
494 
498 
Frontal longitudinal arc, 
130 
122 
122 
125 
118 
124 
Parietal „ „ 
135 
132 
128 
138 
127 
128 
Occipital „ „ 
109 
106 
108 
Total ,, 
374 
360 
360 
Vertical transverse arc, 
330 
280 
280 
293 
277 
310 
Basi-nasal length, 
105 
99 
94 
90 
Basi-alveolar length, . 
107 
108 
90 
88 
Gnathic Index, 
Interzygomatic breadth, 
102 
109 
96 
98 
140 
122 
122 
128 
109 
Intermalar ,, . 
125 
113 
112 
111 
103 
Ophryo-alveolar length, 
90 
90 
89 
78 
81 
73 
Naso-alveolar ,, . 
65 
68 
68 
60 
60 
59 
Facial Index, . 
64 
74 
73 
61 
67 
Nasal height, . 
47 
46 
47 
46 
44 
43 
Nasal width, . 
24 
24 
22 
22 
25 
20 
Nasal Index, . 
51 
52 
47 
48 
57 
46-5 
Orbital width, 
39 
38 
37 
36 
35 
Orbital height, 
29 
31 
34 
33 
31 
Orhital Index, 
74 
82 
92 
92 
88-6 
Palato-maxillary length, 
64 
65 
58 
52 
52 
45 
Palato-maxillary breadth, 
69 
62 
63 
66 
57 
Palato-maxillary Index, 
108 
95 
108-6 
127 
109-6 
(ZOOL CHALL. EXP. PART XXIX. 1884.) Ff 12 
