172 HUMAN FOSSILS. in 



line indicating the upper boundary of the attachment of 

 the temporal muscle, though not very strongly marked, 

 ascends nevertheless to more than half the height of the 

 parietal bone. On the right superciliary ridge is observ- 

 able an oblique furrow or depression, indicative of an in- 

 jury received during life.* The coronal and sagittal su- 

 tures are on the exterior nearly closed, and on the inside so 

 completely ossified as to have left no traces whatever, whilst 

 the lambdoidal remains quite open. The depressions for 

 the Pacchionian glands are deep and numerous; and there 

 is an unusually deep vascular groove immediately behind 

 the coronal suture, which, as it terminates in a foramen, 

 no doubt transmitted a vena emlssaria. The course of 

 the frontal suture is indicated externally by a slight 

 ridge; and where it joins the coronal, this ridge rises into 

 a small protuberance. The course of the sagittal suture 

 is grooved, and above the angle of the occipital bone the 

 parietals are depressed. 



ram.t inches. 



The length of the skull from the 

 nasal process of the frontal over 

 the vertex to the superior semi- 

 circular lines of the occipital 

 measures 303 (800) = 12.0". 



Circumference over the orbital 

 ridges and the superior semicir- 

 cular lines of the occipital ... 590 (590) = 23.37" or 23". 



Width of the frontal from the mid- 

 dle of the temporal line on one 

 side to the same point on the op- 

 posite 104 (114) = 4.1"— 4.5". 



* This, Mr. Busk has pointed out, is probably the 

 notch for the frontal nerve. 



t The numbers in parentheses are those which I should 

 assign to the different measures, as taken from the plaster 

 east. — (I. B. 



