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of a Vancouver Islander ; while there are others in the case 
that have been much shortened and broadened, notably two 
from Sacraficios Island, Gulf of Mexico. A series of busts 
illustrates some of the types of American Indians. 
Attention may be directed to heads of two American Indians 
of the Javara tribe, from Ecuador, much reduced below the 
original size by the removal of the skull, and exhibited to dis- 
plav the character of the hair. Two skeletons of Arawak 
Indians from Guiana are of great interest to the anthropologist. 
With the exception of the last, which contains American [Cases 
Monkeys, the remaining cases on the h;ft side of the upper 
gallery are devoted to the Negro or Black Races, including not 
only the typical Negroes of the African Continent, but also the 
Negritos of the Andaman Islands, the Melanesian inhabitants 
of Eastern Polynesia and Papua, and the Tasmanians. Of the 
last, which are now extinct, busts of two of the latest survivors, 
as well as a skeleton, are exhibited, from which it will be 
seen that these people differ from the Australians by the 
frizzly nature of their hair, hereby resembling true Negroes. 
The South-African Bushmen — also a very low type — are repre- 
sented by busts of a male and female ; and the African 
Pigmies are exhibited in the form of the skeleton of a female 
of the Akka tribe obtained in Equatorial Africa by the late 
Dr. Emin Pasha, and by one of a male of the Bambuti tribe 
given by Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G. The Papuans are 
illustrated by photographs as well as by models and skulls ; 
while, in addition to skulls, the fast-disappearing natives of the 
Andaman Islands are represented by three skeletons. 
Table-case IV, at the west end of the gallery, displays some [CaselVc] 
of the most important structural differences between Man and 
Apes ; and likewise the different types of human skulls, and the 
mode of measuring the same, with their respective brain- 
capacities. 
In this case is placed a cast the only known fragment of the 
skull of Pithecanthropus erectus, a creature from the superficial 
deposits of Java supposed to connect Man with the Man-like 
Apes, and more especially the Gibbons. On the adjacent screen 
;ire exhibited the “ papillary ridges ” on the hands and feet of 
