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Title: New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine."
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875
Subjects: Physiognomy Phrenology
Publisher: New York : Fowler & Wells
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 601.—MxTfi OF North Australia. ical conditions or to a mixture of blood, we are not at preser.table to determine. Of the Solomon islanders, of one of whom fig. 600 is a rep-resentation, we have no reliable description. Our sketch sug-gests an approach to the Australian type, to which it mayserve as a transition. THE AUSTRALIANS, In the native Australian we have an exceedingly low and THE AUSTRALIANS. 477 degraded type of humanity. Fig. 603, from a cranium in theMortonian collection, seems scarcely human. The skull isthat of a native of Port St. Philip, New South Wales. Thisskull, Dr. Morton says, is the nearest approach to the orangtype that I have seen. It is, adds Dr. Meigs, a trulyanimal head. The forehead is exceedingly flat and recedent,
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Fig. 602.—A Woman of North Australia. while the prognathism of the superior maxillary almost de-j»-enerates into a muzzle. The alveolar arch, instead of bein<xround or oval in outline, is nearly square. The whole head iselongated and depressed along the coronal region, the basiscranii flat, and the mastoid processes very large and roughlyformed. The immense orbits are overhung by ponderoussuperciliary ridges. This latter feature is still more evident 478 NATIONAL TYPES. in No. 1,451 of the collection, which, though varying some*what in type, presents in general the same brutal appearance. Injustice to the Austra-lian, it should be notedthat skulls of a f- omewhatbetter form are not un-common, though the typeis low in all. Capt. Wilkes says the^ v^ cast of the (Australian)V face is between the Afri-^ *^ can and the Malay ; thefbrehea<l im usually nar-row and

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