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smootti forehead is devoid of the keel-like formation perceptible in 

 the Eskimo. The carinated ridge makes its appearance along the 

 middle and posterior part of the inter-parietal suture. The widest 

 transverse diameter is near the superior edge of the temporal bone ; 

 from this point the diameter contracts both above and below. As 

 in the Eskimo, the occiput is full and prominent, as is also the 

 posterior surface of the parietal bones, which surface, in the Eski- 

 mo, however, is flat. The forehead inclines upwards and back- 

 wards to a prominence in the middle of the inter-parietal suture, 

 from which point it is rounded off posteriory. The face forms a 

 broad oval ; the orbits are large, deep, and have their transverse 

 ax* at right angles with the median line of the face. The malar 

 bones, though large, are neither so prominent nor high as in the 

 Eskimo. They are laterally compressed, more rounded, and less 

 flared out at their inferior margin in the Polar man. The anterior 

 nares are flat and smooth, and the alveolar arch somewhat more 

 prominent than in the typical Eskimo, as is shown by comparing 

 them by the norma verticalis. Upon examining the basis cranii, 

 we observe, at once, the globular fulness of tbe occipital region, 

 and an alteration in the general configuration of the base, as com- 

 pared with that of the true Arctic skull. The greatest breadth is 

 not confined to the zygomatic region, for lines drawn from the most 

 prominent point of the zygomae to the most prominent point of the 

 mastoid process, on either side, are parallel to each other.] 



1. 1553. Kalmuck. Presented by Charles Cramer, Esq., of St. 

 Petersburg, Russia. F. A. 8P. I. C. 93-75. 



Kalmuck (1553). 



rin the accompanying figure, the reader will observe that the cra- 



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