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THE VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



5th. Sphenoid {sphenoides). 



The cranium represented in Fig. 7, which I name " sphenoid," 

 from the Greek, is cuneiform. The characteristics of this type are 



Fig. 7.— Sphenoides. 



very evident; the biparietal enlargement of the cranium is far back, 

 and there is a gradual and sensible reduction in width from that 



Fig. 8.~Sphenoides Stenometropus. 



unusually large extension as far as the frontal. The occipital 

 part is, therefore, either level and vertical, or rounded, without pro- 

 tuberance. 



