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jection, that of a cranium of the same sex, distinguished as " No. 3 " in M. Mas- 

 se"nat's Collection. M. Broca, who has spoken of this cranium in a recent commu- 



Figs. 90 and 91. 



(Copied, ly permission of the publishers, MM. Bailliere etfils,from the ' Crania Ethnica,' par MM.de 



Quatrefages et Hamy.) 



Fig. 90. Norma verticalis of Cranium "No. 2" from Fig. 91. Norma verticalis of Cranium "No. 3" from 

 Laugerie Basse. (Half natural size.) Laugerie Basse. (Half natural size.) 



nication to the Anthropological Society of Paris*, believed, from the study of an 

 inadequate cast, that it had belonged to a woman "certainly very aged." He 

 saw no sutures apparent ; and as the cranium was very small, especially in front, 

 and its volume did not appear to much exceed 1100 cubic centims. (67 cubic 

 inches), he presented it as "a hitherto unique exception " among dolichocephalic 

 crania of this type, which have, on the average, a greater volume than those of 

 our existing races. 



The quite unexpected exception noted by our learned master and friend has not 

 been confirmed. We have obtained from M. Masse"nat another cast of this skull, 



* P. Broca, " Sur trois cranes de 1'epoque du Eenne, decouverts par M. Elie Massenat a Laugerie-Basse," 

 Bull. Soc. d'Anthrop. de Paris, 2 e serie, vol. viii. p. 217 (1873). 



