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maxilla, and the lower jaw. The basilar process and the antra of 

 Highmore show some firmly adhering material referred to as gravel, 

 and in many places the specimen has remnants of a coating (0.25 to 

 1.5 mm. thick) of apparently calcareous stalagmite. 



The general somatological aspect of the skull is in no way extraor 

 dinary. It is plainly a male skull and belonged to an individual of 

 advanced years, but not of extreme age. In form it was in all prob 

 ability mesocephalic, and of medium height. The face was only mod 

 erately broad for a male ; its height can not be ascertained on account 

 of an advanced absorption of the upper alveolar process, but was 

 apparently in no respect unusual. The nose is very slightly plat- 

 yrhynic (nasal index 53.5), a form that occurs quite commonly 

 among Indian crania; and the orbits (with breadth measured from 

 dacryon) are megaseme (index of right 95, of left 91), a condition 

 not infrequent among Indians. Facial .prognathism was insignifi 

 cant ; aveolar prognathism can not be determined. 



The forehead is of medium height and prominence, showing no 

 sloping such as might be expected in a male skull of a low form. The 

 temporal ridges are not pronounced or high. The supraorbital 

 ridges are strong, but not more so than in some modern masculine 

 Indian crania ; they extend, however, along the whole superior 

 border of the orbits, a much less common form. The glabella is a 

 little less prominent than the ridges; as a result of this formation 

 there is between the latter a shallow depression. 



The face is somewhat damaged, but permits of a number of desir 

 able determinations. The nasion depression is pronounced; there is 

 nothing peculiar about the nasal bridge or bones; the nasal aperture 

 is pyriform, with the left notch somewhat lower than the right; 

 there are shallow nasal gutters (not rare in the Indian) ; and the 

 spine was well developed. The orbits are slightly ovoid in shape, 

 their distal part being higher than the proximal, and deep; their 

 borders are not sharp. The malars are of ordinary form and mod 

 erate size, not unusually protruding; the marginal process is not 

 large; the zygoma} are strong; the submalar (&quot;canine&quot;) fossae are 

 fairly well hollowed. The upper alveolar border shows a loss of all 

 the teeth and in front an advanced alveolar absorption (to within 

 11 mm. of the nasal notch on the right, and to within even a shorter 

 distance on the left, side) ; but as an indication of age these condi 

 tions do not agree with the state of the sutures, and are there 

 fore probably of pathological origin. The palate offers nothing- 

 exceptional. 



What remains of the temporal bones presents ordinary features, 

 with a medium -sized masculine mastoid. 



As for the base, the glenoid cavities are deep and rather narrojv 

 antero-posteriorly ; there are high spinous, and quite high vaginal, 



