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not till several weeks after their discovery that they were 

 recognised as such by me, and placed in security. 



" ' But, as the importance of the discovery was not 

 at the time perceived, the labourers were very careless in 

 the collecting, and secured chiefly only the larger bones; 

 and to this circumstance it may be attributed that frag- 

 ments merely of the probably perfect skeleton came into 

 my possession.' 



" My anatomical examination of these bones afforded 

 the following results: — 



" The cranium is of unusual size, and of a long-ellipti- 

 cal form. A most remarkable peculiarity is at once obvi- 

 ous in the extraordinary development of the frontal si- 

 nuses, owing to which the superciliary ridges, which coal- 

 esce completely in the middle, are rendered so prominent, 

 that the frontal bone exhibits a considerable hollow or 

 depression above, or rather behind them, whilst a deep de- 

 pression is also formed in the situation of the root of the 

 nose. The forehead is narrow and low, though the middle 

 and hinder portions of the cranial arch are well developed. 

 Unfortunately, the fragment of the skull that has been 

 preserved consists only of the portion situated above the 

 roof of the orbits and the superior occipital ridges, which 

 are greatly developed, and almost conjoined so as to form 

 a horizontal eminence. It includes almost the whole of 

 the frontal bone, both parietals, a small part of the 

 squamous and the upper-third of the occipital. The re- 

 cently fractured surfaces show that the skull was broken 

 at the time of its disinterment. The cavity holds 16,876 

 grains of water, whence its cubical contents may be esti- 

 mated at 57.64 inches, or 1033.24 cubic centimetres. In 

 making this estimation, the water is supposed to stand on 

 a level with the orbital plate of the frontal, with the deep- 

 est notch in the squamous margin of the parietal, and 

 with the superior semicircular ridges of the occipital. 

 Estimated in dried millet-seed, the contents equalled 31 

 ounces, Prussian Apothecaries' weight. The semicircular 



