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we would call sharp. Some of the shafts of these long bones, espe- 

 cially the radii and tibiae, exhibit a pathological condition, through 

 which necrosis has followed and destroyed some of the osseous 

 tissue of the shafts. It is quite possible that this was due to syphilitic 

 disease or to some other malady, but I believe it to be due to 

 syphilis. 



Judging from the slenderness and general form of these bones, 

 I would say that they belonged to a skeleton of a female subject; 

 and, owing to the fact that the clavicle exhibits no distortion or 

 augmentation of size, to an individual who was not accustomed to 

 severe labor of any kind worth mentioning. Further, this person 

 must have been between twenty-five and thirty years of age, which 

 I assume to be the case from my examination of the seven (7) teeth 

 I find with the remains (Plate XX, figs. 3 and 4, a, b, c, d and e). 

 There is also a small first bicuspid with half of its fang broken off, 

 which is not figured. All of these teeth are wonderfully sound and 

 perfect, exhibiting no evidences of caries whatever or attrition due 

 to the wear of age. 



Only a few of the bones of the carpus, or tarsus, are present; 

 these are more or less imperfect and present nothing of special 

 interest. 



In Plate XX, figs. 9-16, I give some of the phalanges. of the hands 

 and feet. These are selected from quite a number which my son 

 collected with the rest of this skeleton, and from their general form 

 and appearance seem to have belonged to an individual who, in so 

 far as the feet are concerned, never compressed these parts in any 

 way whatever and yet walked a great deal. The individual bones 

 are stout, strong, and somewhat broad, transverselv for their lengths 

 (Plate XX, fig. 10). 



If we may judge from what we have of the skull of this subject 

 (Plate XIX, fig. 1, and Plate XX, fig. 3), it is fair to assume that the 

 possessor of it had a rather large cranial capacity; that the parietal, 

 supraoccipital and temporal walls were not particularly thick; 

 while, as a matter of fact, the tables are thin and the diploic tissue 

 not especially abundant. In the lambdoid suture there is at least 

 one ''Wormian bone" present, and there may have been others, 

 although I attach no great significance to the fact. The "anterior 

 nasal spine" was rather prominent, as is the case in some of the 

 lower races of mankind. 



On the internal table of the cranial vault, the eminences and 

 depressions for the lodgement of the convolutions of the cerebrum 



