those of uncloiibted Mound Builders, and with those of 

 the New England Indians. While the skulls of the New 

 England Indians are long and narrow, those from the 

 mounds, the circular graves, the stone graves and the 

 caves, were of the short, broad and high type ; but in 

 the caves were found two, if not three, classes of burials, 

 and at least two well-marked forms of skulls. 



The skulls found in graves which were, as a rule, pro- 

 tected by slabs of stone, were, so far as his researches 

 went, of a form resembling the high, short and broad 

 crania of the typical Mound Builders, while those from 

 caves that contained a large number of skeletons repre- 

 senting bodies that had been thrown into the caves, or 

 perhaps skeletons which had been placed there after the 

 flesh had decayed, were quite characteristic from the very 

 marked depression of the frontal bone and the equally 

 marked concavity on the anterior part of the parietals. 

 The skulls from the "circular grave" were also distin- 

 guished from the others by their decided width and short- 

 ness, and the more vertical occipital portion. 



A series of shin bones was also exhibited, to show the 

 various degrees of flattening which existed, and to prove, 

 as shown by the researches of others, that platycnemism, 

 while most marked in ancient and uncivilized races, could 

 not be taken as a special race character of any great im- 

 portance. 



The examination of a group of mounds near Glasgow 

 was then described, and though no human remains were 

 found in these particular mounds, a most interesting burial 

 place on a hill close by may have had some connection 

 with them. This burial place consisted of a number of 

 circular graves, most of which had been destroyed by the 

 cultivation of the land ; but one that had been undis- 

 turbed by the plough was carefully opened. This grave 



