8CHAAFJFHAUSEN ON THE CRANIA OE THE ANCIENT RACES OF MAN. 157 



bone. On the right superciliary ridge is observable an oblique furrow 

 or depression, indicative of an injury received during life.* The coronal 

 and sagittal sutures 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 emissaria. 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 oc- 

 cipital bone the parietals are depressed. 



mm.f 



The length of the skull from the nasal 

 process of the frontal over the ver- 

 tex to the superior semicircular 

 lines of the occipital measures, . 303 (300) = 12*0". 



Circumference over the orbital ridges 

 and the superior semicircular lines 

 of the occipital, 590 (580) = 23-37" or 23". 



Width of the frontal from the middle 

 of the temporal line on one side to 

 the same point on the opposite, . 104 (114) = 4'1" - 4 '5". 



Length of the frontal from the nasal 



process to the coronal suture, . 133 (125) = 5-25" - 5". 



Extreme width of the frontal sinuses, 25 (23)= 1-0" -09". 



Yertical height above a line joining 

 the deepest notches in the squa- 

 mous border of the parietals, . . 70 = 2-75". 



"Width of hinder part of skull from 

 one parietal protuberance to the 

 other, 138(150)= 5-4"- 59". 



Distance from the upper angle of the 

 occipital to the superior semicir- 

 cular lines, 51 (60)= 1-9"- 2-4". 



Thickness of the bone at the parietal 



protuberance, 8. 



at the angle of the occipital, . 9. 



at the superior semicircular line 



of the occipital, 10 =0-3". 



Besides the cranium, the following boDes have been secured : — 

 1. Both thigh-bones, perfect. These, like the skull, and all the 



* A remark with respect to this depression will be found in the Remarks. 



t The numbers in brackets are those which I should assign to the different measures, 

 as taken from the plaster cast. — G. B. 



