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the frontal bone is quite remarkable, its outline, with the excep- 

 tion of the upper two inches, being not at all curved ; the right 

 frontal protuberance being much the most prominent; the zygo- 

 matic fossa, from the pressure, has its anterior limit on the 

 frontal bone more brought forward, with a flattened direction of 

 the frontal ridge, and a considerable depression between the 

 frontal protuberance and the external angular process. Over a 

 zone, on the top of the head, comprising the anterior inch of the 

 sagittal suture, there is a marked depression ; posterior to this, 

 instead of gradually rounding off downwards, the skull is much 

 elevated for the space of about two inches, without great lateral 

 expansion, and then suddenly becomes quite perpendicular on 

 the posterior surface. There is a remarkable flatness of the 

 occipital region, both of the parietal and occipital bones — there 

 is no occipital protuberance on the median line, in the usual 

 place, but rather a concavity — but there is a protuberance, about 

 an inch to the left of the median line, at the height of the usual 

 occipital prominence, corresponding with the oblique direction 

 of the pressure which must have been exerted on this head. 

 The flatness of the occiput is such that it seems to rise immedi- 

 ately from the great occipital foramen. 



The nasal bones are very flat, and present a remarkable form 

 at their upper portion ; the suture between them and the ascend- 

 ing branch of the superior maxillary bones, instead of being 

 nearly straight or with a slight curve outwards, has a lateral 

 wing-like process extending outwards at its upper portion, which 

 is received into a corresponding irregular concavity in the supe- 

 rior maxillary bone ; so that these bones are, as it were, dove- 

 tailed into, and suspended upon the superior maxillary, by these 

 ear-like processes. The whole skull is irregularly quadrangular; 

 the occipital portion so compressed that the parietal bones, instead 

 of forming a regular curve, form with their upper and posterior 

 portions considerably less than a right angle. The sides are but 

 slightly swelled out ; the forehead very retreating. The skull is 

 unsyrnmetrical, both in front and behind; and the pressure was 

 not applied exactly in the antero-posterior diameter, but in a 

 line passing nearly from the left frontal protuberance to the 

 right mastoid process ; consequently the right frontal region, 

 and the left occipital are considerably more prominent than the 



