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and delicate texture of the cranium rendered the blow fatal from the extensive fractures 

 which ensued. 



Purchased. 



5543. The skull of a male native of Eastern India. 



The cranium is more capacious than in the two preceding specimens, but exemplifies the 

 same type of form. The calvarium has been detached and shows the parietes to be thin, 

 compact, with very little diploe. The glabella is moderately prominent : the nasals are 

 narrow and prominent : the malars are slightly prominent. The upper jaw is less produced 

 than in No. 5542. 



Presented by Dr. Henderson. 



5544. The skull of a young female Hindoo. 



The last molar has not protruded in either jaw. The cranium is short, broad at the 

 parietal protuberances, with a broad, lofty, flattened occipital region, and a narrow, rather 

 receding forehead. The malars are small : the nasal bones are prominent, and the upper jaw 

 is produced. 



Purchased. 



5545. The skull of a female Hindoo. 



The permanent dentition is acquired. The occiput is narrow and more protuberant than 

 in No. 5544 : the prognathic character is more marked. 



Purchased. 



5546. The skull of a Hindoo youth, aged thirteen years. 



The parietal protuberances are strongly marked, and the occiput is narrow and prominent. 

 In the upper jaw the deciduous teeth have been shed, and succeeded by the permanent inci- 

 sors, canines and premolars : in the lower jaw the last deciduous molar is retained : the second 

 true molars are not in place in either jaw. 



Purchased. 



5547. The cranium of a Hindoo child, aged six years and a half. 



The deciduous teeth and the first permanent true molars have been acquired : the second 

 deciduous incisors appear to have been shed in the upper jaw : the lower left deciduous mo- 

 lars have decayed, and the hinder one has been shed. 



Purchased. 



5548. The skull of a Hindoo child, aged two years and a half. 



The deciduous dentition has been acquired : the germs of some of the permanent teeth are 

 exposed. The limits between the tympanic and petrosal are indicated by a vacuity where 

 their coalescence has not been completed. The paroccipital tubercles are recognizable be- 

 tween the condyles and the small mastoids. The harmonia between the basi- and ex-occipi- 

 tals is distinct. The maxillo-premaxillary sutures remain upon the palate. 



Purchased. 



