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There is a depression of the parietals on the crown in their first third, behind the coronal suture ; and 

 therefore the elevation of the sagittal suture is there strongly marked; but it disappears in the posterior 

 two-thirds of the parietals. This difference in relation to two other skulls belongs, without doubt, to the 

 abnormal condition of the occiput, where a series of Wormian bones are intercalated at the lambdoid angle, 

 a disposition favouring the transverse extension of the cranium, whilst in the others there is a lateral 

 compression along the sagittal suture. 



At the occiput the parietal flatness is wanting. Moreover, by an anomaly, which we meet with also 

 sometimes in the cranium of other races, the occipital plate, being globular, is as it were detached from 

 the parietals, being separated at the lambdoidal angle by four large Wormian bones, whilst others smaller 

 occur in the lambdoidal suture. Lastly, the parietal eminences, prominent upwards and backwards, are 

 still more pronounced than in the old man's cranium ; and they are also unsymmetrical, the prominence 

 on the right side being much greater than that on the left. 



This cranium has its greatest width below the parietal eminences ; but we must not forget that its 

 having been filled with earth must have increased its original transverse diameter. 



The body of the lower jaw, when at rest, takes the same position as the one last described, the chin 

 rising in the air a little and the hinder portion altogether. Moreover this chin, with its rounded point, 

 projects but very little, and is marked in front with a flattened ridge. The height of the chin is 31 millims., 

 its thickness is 12 millims. ; the height of the horizontal portion is 25, and its thickness 12 millims. This 

 jaw presents no indication of prognathism. On its inner surface the mental processes are weak and the 

 mylo-hyoidean furrows are broad and deep. No tooth remains in this jaw. The sockets show that the 

 form and size of the teeth corresponded with those of the preceding specimen. 



3. FEMALE SKULL, No. 3. [C. PLATE V.] 



In this specimen the calvarium is still more incomplete than the foregoing ; but it has the advantage of 

 still possessing the right side of the face with the anterior portion of the palate. The bones are dullish 

 white in colour, and not more than 6 to 7 millims. in thickness. 



Its relatively small size, the smallness of its processes and bony projections, the slightness of the 

 muscular depressions, the conformation of the forehead, <fcc., leave no doubt of this skull having been that 

 of a female. What remains of the calvarium and the face authorizes us moreover to regard it as belonging 

 to one of the same race as those above described. 



Excepting the coronal at the temple, all the sutures are open outwards ; but within, excepting at the 

 angle of the lambdoid and middle of the sagittal, all appear to have been closed up. They are more 

 strongly toothed than in No. 2, but the toothing is not deep. Most of the molars have their tubercles 

 worn ; consequently this woman had passed her thirtieth year. We may remark that the first premolar 

 had two fangs. Moreover the teeth that remain are sound, strong, and white, with very thick enamel. 



This cranium, as shown by the longitudinal diameter, would be very much elongated, and even more 

 dolichocephalic than those of the men ; but it is impossible to determine its greater breadth, on account of 

 the imperfect state of the parietals. The crown is oblong, with the sagittal suture more prominent than in 

 the foregoing (No. 2). 



The features of the face, allowing for sexual differences, correspond with those of No. 1. The forehead 

 is smooth, even to the slight projection of the superciliary arches ; it is straight in front, but slopes 

 laterally. The frontal eminences are small ; and are 60 millims. apart. The orbit is very large, with a 

 square opening ; and, as is usual in the female, it is higher than in Man : its lower rim is very thick. The 

 lacrymal canal is almost wholly excavated in the maxillary. The nose was probably thicker than in the 



