DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES OF SKULLS. 



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COWLAM. 



[lix. 3. p. 226.] 

 SKULL OF A MAN IN LATEE MIDDLE LIFE AND 5 FT. 7 IN. IN HEIGHT. 



I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length 

 Extreme breadth 

 Vertical height 

 Absolute height 

 Circumference 

 Frontal arc . 



7-5" 



6-3" 



6-5" 



64" 



22-1" 



5-4" 



Parietal arc . . . 

 Occipital arc 

 Maximum frontal width 

 Minimum frontal width 

 Maximum occipital width, ap 

 proximatively , 



5-6" 

 5-1" 

 5-3" 



4-1" 



5-1" 



II. Measurements of Pace. 



' naso- alveolar line ' 



' interzygomatic line/ approximative^ 



Length of face : 

 Breadth of face : 



Height of orbit 



Width of orbit 



Length of nose 



Width of nose 



Lower jaw, interangular diameter 



Lower jaw, depth at symphysis 



Lower jaw, width of ramus on level of grinding surface of 

 molar teeth ..... 



Length-breadth index : 

 Antero-posterior index 



Facial angle to nasal spine 

 Facial angle to alveolar edge 



III. Indices, 

 cephalic index' 



2'9" 



5'65" 



1-45' 



1-7" 



1-9" 



0-9" 



1-5" 



84 

 50 



72 



A fragmentary femur gives a probable length of 18*5" for the 

 perfect bone, from which we may calculate the stature as having 

 been 5' 7", about an inch and a half less than the average stature 

 assigned to the brachy-cephalous British by Dr. Thurnam upon an 

 examination of twenty-seven femora. The femur in question shows 

 its owner to have been a man of considerable strength and to 

 have been in the later period of middle life, conclusions to which 

 the condition and character of the skull would likewise point. The 

 articular surface of the head of the femur has encroached a little 

 way on to its neck anteriorly, which may indicate the existence in 

 early life of some disease of the joint which was recovered from. 



The sagittal and coronal sutures are still patent, both internally 

 and externally, for a considerable part of their extent. The skull 

 itself is a most favourable specimen of the brachy-cephalic type, 

 combining as it does indications of strength with great size, and 

 yet showing no marks of savagery. It assuredly merits the titles 

 of Kraftigkett und Wurde which His and Riitimeyer (Jahrbuch cler 



