Aug. 1897. Observations on Papuan Crania — Dorsey. n 



plates are narrow with long hamular processes. External angular 

 process of frontal, broad and long. 



Muscular Impressions. — Prominently indicated. The long tem- 

 poral line has already been noted ; on its frontal aspect is a well- 

 developed crest. The external occipital crest is not individualized, 

 but is included in the torus occipitalis transrersus which extends from 

 asterion to asterion, and is 22 mm. wide and 8 mm. high through the 

 region of inion. 



Lower Jaw. — Massive and strongly fashioned. Through the 

 region of the internal oblique line the body measures 18 mm. in thick- 

 ness. The attachment ridges of the masseter and external pterygoid 

 muscles are heavy and rough. The ascending ramus is 34 mm. in 

 breadth and the condyloid height is 70 mm. The coronoid process 

 is broad, but not sharp, and curves backwards. The mental pro- 

 tuberance and tubercles are not prominent. Height of symphysis, 33 

 mm.; mandibular angle, uo°. 



NO. 40,619. — Skull of an adult male, heavy and compact, but 

 small. The lachrymals and interior r^xqs aje destroyed. Cranial 

 capacity, 1,285 cc. The following teeth; a^e in situ: upper left first 

 and second molars, and righbjcauine and first premolar ; lower left 

 second molar and right lateral incisor and ' SCfcond v a#d third molars. 

 These teeth are perfectly sound and not worn. The alveoli of the 

 other teeth are in sound condition, except those of the right first and 

 second molars. A large amount of absorption has taken place in 

 this region and simply the dwarfed crests of the alveoli remain, while 

 the maxillary sinus has been opened in three different places. A 

 large amount of absorption has also gone on in the labial margin of 

 the alveoli of both right and left lower first molars. 



Norma Frontalis. — Forehead retreating and extremely narrow ; 

 minimum frontal width, 87 mm. Glabella prominent, with supraorb- 

 ital ridges. Orbits squarish, with decidedly oblique axes. Nasals 

 long and slender with slight convexity from above downwards, and 

 rather sharply arched. Nasal openings rounded, with single and very 

 diminutive anterior spine and well-developed incisor crest. The 

 incisor fossae are slightly sunken ; malar tuberosities prominent ; 

 zygomatic arches appressed. Entire face appears long and narrow. 



Norma Verticalis. — Ovoid; frontal development slight, with no 

 indication of frontal eminences; parietal eminences fairly well devel- 

 oped, but asymmetrical in position, that of the right side being situ- 

 ated about 15 mm. forward of the left. The skull is pronouncedly 

 phamozygous, the fronto-zygomatic index being 75. 



