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APPENDIX. I. ETHNOLOGY. By George Rolleston, M.D., F.R.S. Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Oxford. The following human bones — viz. four skulls, six lower jaws, four cervical vertebrae, one large and one small sized scapula, two small sized and fragmentary humeri, a fragment of a very slight but adult ulna, four cervical vertebrae, and five more or less fragmentary ribs — have been put into my hands by Mr, C. G. Oates, with informa- tion to the effect that they had belonged probably to a Bushman horde massacred somewhere between the Tati and Ramaqueban rivers, in S. lat. 20° 54', and long. 27= 42'. With these human bones came some bones of Eqims .ca- hallus or zebra f) ; also of one large ruminant .Bos taurus or Bos caffer), and one smaller ; and part of the skull of an ostrich .StnitJuo camehis) ; and, later, the feet-bones of an elephant .Elephas africanus). All these bones had been collected by my former pupil, Mr. Frank Oates, of Christ Church, Oxford. The four skulls had not their lower jaws assigned to them ; but to three of them jaws were assignable, which in all probability had really belonged to them, being very exactly coadaptable, to say nothing of their having been sent in company with them and with