Do the skull and the skeleton belong together? 



Inasmuch, as was shown above, there seems to be no doubt 

 that the other parts of the skeleton contained in the casket are those 

 of Emanuel Swedenborg, and as there is good reason to suppose that 

 the same is also true of the ■ remains of the lower jaw, the whole 

 question of the authenticity of the cranium would be solved if only we 

 could prove its connection with the lower maxilla and the remaining 

 skeleton. 



Had the first cervical vertebra or the articular processes of 

 the lower jawbone been preserved, it is not unlikely that one might 

 have been able to derive almost conclusive evidence from some cha- 

 racteristic agreement in the form of the corresponding articular sur- 

 faces, that the bones are those of the same individual, or, on the con- 

 trary, on account of a difference in dimension, for instance^, to abso- 

 lutely exclude such a possibility. 



Since, however, the atlas as well as the condyles of the lower 

 maxilla are entirely destroyed, all that remained was to investigate 

 whether the fragments of the lower maxilla which were preserved 

 could perhaps afford some other argument for or against their belong- 

 ing to the skull. 



It should then, in the first place^ be remembered that the con- 

 siderably slighter disintegration of the cranium, compared with that of 

 the lower maxilla, as well as of several other parts of the skeleton, 

 in no wise contradicts the assumption that the bones are those of 

 the same individual, since this condition is quite satisfactorily explained 

 by the historical data. (See page 32). 



A close comparison of the lower maxilla with the superior maxil- 

 lary bones of the cranium before us shows that a good agreement 

 exists both in respect to size and form. The alveolar processes are 



