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lambdoid sutures, in the right lambdoid there is a regular chain of small 
bones, while there are also two or three minute ones in the left. In No. 12 
the conditions are much the same as far as the lambdoid suture is concerned, 
but left and right are reversed and the bones are larger. In No. 13 there is 
a Wormian bone of considerable size in the lambda. Epipteric bones are 
present in Nos. 11, 12, and 16. 
Jaws and Teeth. The lower jaws are too much injured for it to be 
possible to discuss their features, but the chin appears to have been fairly 
prominent. Post-mortem action of the weather has split the teeth in several 
specimens, but in all they appear to have been sound during life. Their crowns 
are large and have not been worn flat, and there is no trace of blackening 
through betel-chewing. Though the skulls are those of fully adult persons, 
there is no sign of the development of the third molar of the upper jaw on 
the left side in Nos. 1 1, 12, and 13 ; it has been present on the right in all three 
skulls and on both sides in No. 1 5, while in the remaining four specimens 
its presence or absence cannot be diagnosed, owing to the broken condition of 
the jaw. The corresponding tooth of the lower jaw has been present on both 
sides in Nos. 13 and 15, though apparently in a rudimentary condition on 
the left side in the former. The palates are relatively broad. 
The cubic capacity of a male skull (No. 1 1 ) is 1,440 c.c., that of a 
female (No. 12) 1,170 c.c. All the specimens, so far as can be judged, may 
have been phaenozygous, and probably rested behind on the posterior border 
of the foramen magnum. 
Summary of Cranial Features. 
All the eight skulls representing this tribe are practically mesaticephalic by 
measurement, approaching in form more nearly to the dolichocephalic than the 
brachycephalic type. A remarkable feature is the great development of the 
cerebellar part of the occiput. The series is sufficiently large, seeing that its 
leading features are constant in the different specimens, to give some indication 
of the cranial type of the race it represents, but is far too small to indicate the 
exact relationships of that race, even supposing that craniology alone could do 
so. We may safely conclude that the skulls show both primitive features and 
features generally associated with more highly developed races, and that they 
exhibit very close resemblances to the two Selung skulls described by Sir 
William Turner. 1 
I. In Dr. Anderson’s The Selutigs of the Met gui Archipelago , London, 1894. It may be worthy of note that 
in one of these skulls, which I have had an opportunity of examining and comparing with my Orang Laut Kappir 
specimens, the development of the third molars is abnormal. 
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