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flat splinter, showing part of the popliteal or soleal ridge, 

 with small portions of the adjoining popliteal and flexor 

 surfaces of the shaft. From the better of the two, viz., the 

 left, I was able to obtain measurements of the shaft, and 

 these are of considerable interest. In the sub-trochanteric 

 region the antero -posterior diameter was 28 mm. and the 

 transverse diameter 34 mm., thereby giving a Platymeric 

 Index of 82-3. In the region of the linea aspera the antero- 

 posterior diameter was 32 mm. and the transverse diameter 

 27 mm., giving a Pilastric Index of 108*5. In the popliteal 

 section of the shaft, at a level 4 cm. above the articular 

 margin of the external condyle, the antero-posterior diameter 

 was 33 mm. and the transverse diameter 47 mm., giving a 

 Popliteal Index of 70*2. The popliteal diameter " mp " was 

 33 mm., and "mn" was 34 mm., thereby indicating that 

 there was no tendency towards convexity of the popliteal 

 surface of the shaft. 



Even in their imperfect state these figures do not indicate 

 anything at all remarkable. In any of the particulars 

 recorded, this bone might quite well be a modern British 

 femur. It presents marked differences from the femora of 

 the Oban Caves, described by Sir Wm. Turner,^ as well as 

 from a series of femora obtained near an old Eoman wall at 

 Leicester, the details of which I recorded some time ago.^ 

 The resemblances to a modern femur are so close, that I 

 should like to know whether the relation of the human 

 remains to the " kitchen midden " corresponded with that of 

 the other bones in the collection. 



The red-deer was represented by several bones of much 

 larger dimensions than in the Survey Collection, such as 

 lower jaw, ulna, metacarpus and metatarsus, a prse-maxilla, 

 and a nasal bone. One of the metacarpals was much 

 indented by tooth-marks, and had also been split open by 

 teeth. 



The contributions from the sheep were a portion of a 

 mandible containing three molar teeth, a fragmentary 



^ Turner, *' On Human and Animal Remains found in Caves at Oban," 

 Proc. Soc. Aiitiq. Scot., 1895. 



- Hepburn, Jour. Anat. and Phys., vol. xxxi. pp. 116-156. 



