DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES OF SKULLS. 613 



KUDSTONE. 



[ccxxiv. 4. p. 501.] 



SKULL OF A MAN PAST MIDDLE PEEIOD OF LIFE. 

 I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length . . . 7*6" 



Fronto-inial length . . 7*4" 



Extreme breadth . . . 5'4'' 



Upright height . . ' . 6" 



Circumference . . . 20" 



Frontal arc . 5 2" 



Parietal arc . . 5'4" 



Occipital arc . . . . 4' 2" 



Least frontal width . . . 3-9" 



Greatest frontal width . . 47" 



Greatest occipital width . . 4'1" 



II. Measurements of Face. 



Length of face 3" 



Depth of lower jaw at symphy sis 1'7" 



Width of ramus 1'5" 



Height of orbit 1-45" 



Width of orbit 1-6" 



Length of nose 2" 



Width of nose 0*9" 



III. Indices. 



Cephalic index 72 



Antero-posterior index 40'9 



Facial angle at nasal spine 68 



Facial angle at alveolar border 61 



The lower jaw which has been drawn with this skull was not found 

 in connexion with it, but was lying, in the long barrow whence it 

 came, at no very great distance from it. It may very well have be- 

 longed to it, inasmuch as, though its colouration is somewhat dif- 

 ferent, it shows the same male characters ; has a somewhat similar 

 amount of wear upon the grinding surface of its teeth, which other- 

 wise correspond in the way of co-adaptation to those of the upper jaw 

 of the skull ; and has been similarly channelled externally by rootlets. 

 It has not been possible to say anything as to the long bones of the 

 skeleton to which this skull belonged, but the skull taken by itself 

 enables us to say positively that we have here to deal with the 

 remains of a man e past the middle period of life ' who was probably 

 of considerable muscular strength. The skull is eminently long 

 and lofty, and specially interesting as showing how 'occipital 

 dolicho-cephaly,' as here measured by drawing a line at right angles 

 to the line of extreme length so as to lie as a tangent to the anterior 



