Exhibition of Ethnological Casts.Author(s): W. H. FlowerSource: The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 16(1887), pp. 241-242Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2841512 .

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W. H. FLOWER.-Exhibition of Ethnological Casts. 241

From the AUTHOR.-Saggio di un Catalogo Bibliografico Antropo- logico Italiano. By Dr. Paolo Riccardi.

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EXHIBITION of ETHNOLOGIGAL CASTS.

By Professor W. H. FLOWER, LL.D., F.R.S. Professor FLOWER exhibited some specimens from the remarkable

collection of casts of faces of natives of islands of the Pacific Ocean, which has been lately made by Dr. Otto Finsch, of Bremen, and spoke of their great value as permanent material for anthropo- logical study, which will endure after the people themselves, and even the races to which they belonged, have passed away.

The face presents the most important characters by which races, as well as individuals, are distinguished, and these casts appear to be so carefully executed as to give with great exactness the form of the nose, forehead, mouth, &c., even so as to allow of accurate measurements being taken from them. They are, moreover, coloured from nature. The operation of making so large a series of casts (164 different individuals) was, as might be supposed, owing to the reluctance of many of the subjects to submit to the necessary operations, a work of great labour and cost, requiring much time, tact, and perseverance on the part of Dr. Finsch. The collection includes 46 Micronesians from 19 different localities, 12

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242 E. T. HAMY.-An Interpretation of one

Polynesians from 8 localities, 14 Malays from 12 localities, 80 Melanesians from 20 localities, 1 Negro, and 2 Australians.

Professor FLOWER, in presenting in the name of the author a separate copy of a paper on " Les caracteres Simiens de la Machoire de la Naulette," from the Revue d'Antthropologie for July, 1886, by M. Paul Topinard, stated that the interest of the jaw, arising from the circumstances under which it was found denoting great antiquity, fully justified the exhaustive treatment which M. Topinard had accorded to it in this memoir. Many misstatements regarding it, arising from imperfect or erroneous descriptions of previous authors were now corrected, and a full and complete examination of all its characters, compared with other human and simian jaws given.

The author concludes that although by no means so low a type as has been supposed (for example, the genial tubercles, on the absence of which much stress has been laid, are really present), and although none of the simian characters which have been pointed out are of absolute value, yet there is a greater combination of small characters all pointing in the same direction, than in any other known jaw.

The following paper was read by the Assistant Secretary:-

An INTERPRETATION of one of the COPAN MONUMENTS (hfonduras.)

By Dr. E. T. HAMY, of Paris, Corr. Memb. Anth. Inst. [WITH PLATE III.]

THE ruins of Copan are, as is well known, situated in Honduras, a few miles from the north-western frontier of this little state. They were discovered in 1576 by Diego Garcia de Palacio, Licentiate and Auditor of the Royal Audience of Guatemala, but no systematic examination of them was made until April, 1834, when their investigation was undertaken by Colonel D. Juan Galindo.'

The memoir which he wrote on the antiquities of Copan was but very incompletely published, and his drawings are only known through a few lithographs; of these, however, only a very small number of proofs " before letters" are in existence.2

1 D. J. Galindo, " The Ruins of Copan in Central America." (" Archceo- logia Americana." Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. ii, pp. 545-550, 1836.)

2 These lithographs, five in number, were drawn at Bineteau's, about the year 1836. The drawings were effaced from the stones before any title had been engraved, and it is only by comparing the proofs to Galindo's original sketcbes, which are lodged in the archives of the " Societe de Geographie," that I was able to identify these figures.

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