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figures, the outlines of which are copied from very 

 accurate Camera lucida drawings, by my friend 

 Mr. Busk, reduced to one-half of the natural size, 

 are made. 



As Professor Schmerling observes, the base of the 

 skull is destroyed, and the facial bones are entirety 

 absent ; but the roof of the cranium, consisting of 

 the frontal, parietal, and the greater part of the 

 occipital bones, as far as the middle of the occi- 

 pital foramen, is entire, or nearly so. The left 

 temporal bone is wanting. Of the right temporal, 

 the parts in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 auditory foramen, the mastoid process, and a con- 

 siderable portion of the squamous element of the 

 temporal are well preserved (Fig. 23). 



The lines of fracture which remain between the 

 coadjusted pieces of the skull, and are faithfully 

 displayed in Schmerling's figure, are readily trace- 

 able in the cast. The sutures are also discernible, 

 but the complex disposition of their serrations, 

 shown in the figure, is not obvious in the cast. 

 Though the ridges which give attachment to 

 muscles are not excessively prominent, they are 

 well marked, and taken together with the appar- 

 ently well developed frontal sinuses, and the con- 

 dition of the sutures, leave no doubt on my mind 

 that the skull is that of an adult, if not middle- 

 aged man. 



The extreme length of the skull is 7*7 inches, 

 Its extreme breadth, which corresponds very nearly 



