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OSTEOLOGICAL GALLERY. 
Skull of Caucasian. Skull of Torres-Strait Islauder. 
have a very small brain-cavity, thick skull-bones, receding forehead, 
overhanging brows, flat nasal bones, long and low orbits, very 
broad and low nasal-opening, forward projecting jaws, and large 
teeth : strongly contrasting in each of these respects with the 
skull of a European. 
The skeletons exhibited are those of a European man and woman, 
and that of a full-grown Akka woman, one of the race of pygmies 
inhabiting Central Africa. This skeleton was presented by Emin 
Pasha, and measures slightly less than four feet in height. 
Above the skeletons in Case 1 arc some European and North- 
African skulls, among which may be specially noted those of two 
ancient Greeks, from a tomb at Cyrene. In Division B are exhi- 
bited some of the many skulls of Egyptian ^luinmies presented by 
Mr. Flinders Petrie and part of the magnificent collection of skulls 
of Nepalese natives of various tribes made by Mr. B. II. Hodgson, 
and ])resented by him to the IMuseum. Then follow (Div. C) 
Chinese, Malaccan, Sumatran, and other Malay skulls, and those of 
brain and the disuse of the jaws and teeth as weapons of offence 
and defence. It therefore follows that those races of mankind 
which have prominent jaws and small brain-cases are of a lower 
type than those in which the jaws are more reduced in size and 
the brain-case is larger. Thus the Australians and Tasmanians 
2A. Fig. 20. 
