RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Review of Landor, The bushman, or, Life in a new country. CUL-DAR205.10.73. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.10 contains notes on variation and varieties. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
E. W. Landor. 1847. The bushman, or, Life in a new country. Athenaeum, no. 1045 (6 Nov): 1141-42.
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Athenaeum /47/ p. 1142. The Bushman by E. Landor
In Australian skulls, the sphenoid & parietal bones are completely separated, whilst in Europæan skulls, they meet for the space of nearly 1/2 an inch. Prof. Owen has observed the same separation in six out of seven skulls of young chimpanzee. But though the above peculiarity is found in the Australian race alone, it is not constant; I have a skull, in which on one side sphenoid touches parietal & on other is separated by 1/6th of inch
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