DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES OF SKULLS. 575 



FLIXTON WOLD. 



[Ixxi. 5. p. 275.] 



SKULL OF A YOUNG WOMAN OP FROM TWENTY TO TWENTY-FOUR YEARS 

 OF AGE AND 5 FT. 1 IN. IN STATURE. 



I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length . . . 6'8" 



Fronto-inial length . . 6'7" 



Extreme breadth . . . 5' 6" 



Upright height . . . 5'9" 



Absolute height . . . 5'6" 



Basi-cranial axis ... 4" 



Circumference . . . 20" 



Cubical capacity . . . 90'5" 



Frontal arc .... 5'2" 



Parietal arc .... 5'1" 



Occipital arc .... 4'2" 



Minimum frontal width . 3'8" 



Maximum frontal width . 4'8" 



Maximum occipital width . 4' 5" 



II. Measurements of Pace. 



Length of face 2-05" 



Width of face 4'8" 



Basio-subnasal line 3'8" 



Basio-alveolar line 4" 



Interangular diameter of lower jaw .... 3*3" 



Depth of lower jaw at symphysis 1'3" 



Width of ramus of lower jaw on level with grinding sur- 

 face of molars 1/3" 



Height of orbit 1/4" 



Width of orbit 1'6" 



Length of nose . 1/8" 



Width of nose 1/95" 



III. Indices. 



Cephalic (length-breadth) index 82 



Antero-posterior index 49 



Basilar angle of Broca 26 



Facial angle at nasal spine . . . . 70 

 Facial angle at alveolar edge 65 



The form, size, and the condition of development of the skeletal 

 taken together with the cranial bones enable us to say that their 

 owner was a woman between 20 and 24 years of age. The femur 

 and tibia, which are respectively 16*8" and 13'4" in length, have 

 their proximal and distal epiphyses anchylosed, with faint traces of 

 the lines of junction still remaining ; the epiphyses are adherent in 

 the cases of the fibulae, but the traces of their lines of junction are 

 very evident, as is also the case with the proximal end of the 



