152 FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN. 



tlie frontal bone exhibits a considerable hollow or depres- 

 sion above or rather behind them, whilst a deep depres- 

 sion 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 squa- 

 mous and the upper-third of the occipital. The recently 

 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 estimated 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 deepest 

 notch in the squamous margin of the parietal, and with 

 the superior semicircular ridges of the occipital. Esti- 

 mated in dried millet-seed, the contents equalled 31 

 ounces, Prussian Apothecaries' weight. The semicircular 

 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 observa- 

 ble 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 depres- 

 sions for the Pacchionian glands are deep and numerous ; 



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

 nerve. 



