DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES OF SKULLS. 591 



RUDSTONE. 



[Ixiii. 9. p. 248.] 

 SKULL OF A MAN PAST MIDDLE PERIOD OF LIFE; OF 5 FT. 9 IN. IN STATURE. 



I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length . . . 7'2" 



Fronto-inial length . . 7*2" 



Extreme breadth . . . 5'8" 



Vertical height . . . 5'7" 



Absolute height . . . 5'2" 



Basi-cranial axis . . . 3'9" 



Circumference 22" 



Cubical capacity . . . 90" 



Frontal arc .... 5-1" 



Parietal arc .... 4-7" 



Occipital arc . . . . 4*5" 



Minimum frontal width . . 4" 



Maximum frontal width . . 4 - 9" 



Maximum occipital width . 4-4" 



II. Measurements of Face. 



Length of face : ' naso-alveolar ' line .... 2*7" 



' Basio-subnasar line 37" 



'Basio-alveolar'line 3-9" 



Height of orbit 1-3" 



Width of orbit 18" 



Length of nose 2'1" 



Width of nose 1" 



Lower jaw, interangular diameter 4-1" 



Lower jaw, depth at symphysis I'l" 



Lower jaw, width of ramus T7" 



III. Indices. 



Length-breadth index : * cephalic index ' ... 81 

 Antero-posterior index 55 



Basilar angle 19 



Facial angle to base of nasal spine 65 



Facial angle to alveolar border of upper jaw . . 60 



With the cranium, ' Rudstone, Ixiii. 9,' there came into my hands 

 two femora, the length (19'1") and strength of which, as also the 

 character of the skull, show that we have here to deal with the 

 remains of a man of great muscular strength, of about 5' 9" in 

 stature, and ' past the middle period of life,' if not indeed ' aged.' 



The skull itself is a good example of one form of the brachy- 

 cephalic cranium, which is distinguished by having a very oblique 

 and low-lying frontal region, and large supraciliary ridges, which, 

 if covered with large eyebrows during life, would have given a 

 somewhat beetling and forbidding expression to the countenance. 

 In the skull now before us the obliquity of the forehead is probably 

 somewhat increased by the commencing 1 of the senile settling 



1 There can be no doubt that with the atrophy of the brain which sometimes 

 accompanies other senile changes some substance must, in the nature of things, be 



