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Moriori. — The thive of these skulls exhibit the retreating 

 forehead ; Nos. 6 and 7 show the median ridge and the 

 flattening of the parietals noticed by Professor Scott. Viewed 

 from, above, the skulls are obovate ; the glabella is prominent, 

 and the obelion depressed in all three. The " maximum 

 transverse diameter " was taken on the parietals in every 

 case, and the three skulls are phaenozygous. Nos. 5 and 7 

 rest upon the condyles ; No. 6 upon the conceptacular region 

 and one of the mastoids. 



Circumference —Maori. — In the majority of cases (three out 

 of four) the parietal arc is the longest. This would not be 

 the case, however, if a larger number of skulls had been 

 available for measurement. Sir William Turner found the 

 frontal longer than the parietal in 10, equal to it in four, and 

 less in four skulls. While of the large number measured by 

 Professor Scott, 82 per cent, show the frontal arc exceeding 

 the parietal. The occipital arc is shortest in every case. 



Moriori. — In Nos. 5 and 7 the parietal arc is longest, and 

 in No. 6 the frontal The occipital arc is shortest in Nos. 5 

 and 7, but exceeds the parietal in No. 6. 



Sutures. — In all the skulls, except Nos. 1 and 5, the sagittal 

 suture is clearly marked and complicated. In No. 1 it is 

 obliterated, and in No. 5 nearly so, starting from the bregma. 

 Except in No. 1, where it has disappeared, the lamboidal 

 suture is very complicated, and frequently beset with large 

 wormian bones. A wormian bone also appears at the pterion 

 in No. 7. In No. 6 the temporal pushes back the great wing 

 of the splenoid, and touches the frontal on one side, thus 

 forming a K, In every other case the pterion is distinctly of 

 the usual H shape. • None of the skulls examined were 

 metopic, nor were any traces of an inter-parietal bone 

 discovered. In No. b' the infra-orbital suture is clearly 

 marked, and traces of it appear in several others. 



Parietal Foramina. — These are apparent on all the skulls, 

 generally one on either side of the suture, and in Nos. 4 and 

 5 in the median line. No. 7 has three foramina, two on one 

 side and one on the other side of the sagittal suture. 



Nasal Bones. -As a rule, the nasal bones are high and 

 curved at the end, and sunken at the root. 



Anterior Naves. — In six of the skulls this is wide beloiv 

 and narrow above. In No. 2 the opening does not narrow so 

 much, and the base is rounded off by the obliteration of the 

 nasal spine. In five of the remaining skulls the nasal spine 

 is well marked and two-lipped — in No. 4 somewhat bevelled. 



