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just about as well preserved in both, neither exhibiting any marked 

 senile atrophy; and, so far as one can judge, even the teeth seem to 

 have been in about the same state of preservation. The arch formed 

 by the row of teeth may be described as comparatively narrow in 

 both the upper and lower jaw; the former shows a more elliptical, the 

 latter a more parabolic form, a condition quite normal, and the devia- 

 tion is not greater than usual. 



To enable me to judge of the matter more exactly, I made a 

 reconstruction of the missing parts on a plaster cast of the fragment 

 of the lower jaw. The modelling was done free handed and with the 



Figs. 14—15. Plaster c.isl o! tlie skull wRIi the recnnstruclej lower jawbone. 



guidance of a number of lower jawbones of older individuals from the 

 collections of the Anatomical Museum, and employing as a particular 

 pattern the lower maxilla of a man, about (30 years of age, who in re- 

 spect to the condition of the teeth and alveolar processes exhibited 

 strong points of similarity to the subject for my in^•estigation. No com- 

 parisons, on the contrary, were instituted '\\-ith the cranium from the 

 coffin, nor was the slightest attention paid to the measurements which 

 had been made. When the reconstruction was completed it was found 

 to fit together surprisingly well with the cranium, only a very slight 

 correction in the position of the articular processes being necessary. 

 Pigs. 14 — 15 show a reproduction of the plaster casts of the cranium 



