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veloped, and almost conjoined so as to form a horizontal 

 eminence. It includes almost the whole of the frontal bone, 

 both parietals, a small part of the squamous and the upper- 

 third of the occipital. The recently fractured surfaces show that 

 the skull was broken at the time of its disinterrnent. The 

 cavity holds 16,876 grains of water, whence its cubical contents 

 may be estimated at 57 '64 inches, or 1033*24 cubic centimetres. 

 In making this estimation, the water is supposed to stand on a 

 level with the orbital plate of the frontal, with the deepest notch 

 in the squamous margin of the parietal, and with the superior 

 semicircular ridges of the or-cipital. Estimated in dried millet- 

 seed, the contents equalled 31 ounces, Prussian Apothecaries' 

 weight. The semicircular line indicating the upper boundary of 

 the attachment of the temporal muscle, though not very strongly 

 marked, ascends nevertheless to more than half the height of the 

 parietal bone. On the right superciliary ridge is observable an 

 oblique furrow or depression, indicative of an injury received 

 during life. l The coronal and sagittal sutures are on the exterior 

 nearly closed, and on the inside so completely ossified as to "have 

 left no traces whatever, whilst the lambdoidal remains quite 

 open. The depressions for the Pacehionian glands are deep and 

 numerous ; and there is an unusually deep vascular groove 

 immediately behind the coronal suture, which, as it terminates 

 in a foramen, no doubt transmitted a vena cmissaria. The 

 course of the frontal suture is indicated externally by a slight 

 ridge ; and where it joins the coronal, this ridge rises into a 

 small protuberance. The course of the sagittal suture is grooved, 

 and above the angle of the occipital bone the parietals are 



depressed. 



mm. 2 inches. 



The length of the skull from the nasal 



process of the frontal over the 



vertex to the superior semicircular 



lines of the occipital measures . 303 (300) = 12 '0." 



1 This, Mr. Busk has pointed out, is probably the notch foi 

 the frontal nerve. 



3 The numbers in brackets are those which I should assign to 

 the different measures, as taken from the plaster cast. G. B. 



