DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES OF SKULLS. 



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KUD STONE. 



[Ixiii. 9. p. 248.] 



SkFLL of a max past middle period of LIFE; OF 5 FT. 9 IN. IN STATURE. 



I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length 

 Fronto-iuial length 

 Extreme breadth 

 Vertical height 

 Absolute height 

 Basi -cranial axis 

 Cii'cumference 



7-2" 

 7-2" 

 5-8" 

 5-7" 

 5-2" 

 3-9" 

 22" 



Cubical capacity 



Frontal arc 



Parietal arc 



Occipital arc 



Minimum frontal width . 



Maximum frontal width . 



Maximum occipital width 



90" 

 51" 



4-7" 



4o" 



4" 



4-9" 



4-4" 



II. Measurements of Face. 



Length of face : ' naso-alveolar ' line 

 ' Basio-subnasal ' line 

 ' Basio-alveolar ' line 

 Height of orbit .... 



Width of orbit .... 



Length of nose .... 



Width of nose .... 



Lower jaw, interangular diameter 

 Lower jaw, depth at symphysis 

 Lower jaw, width of ramus 



III. Indices. 



Length-breadth index : ' cephalic index ' 

 Antero-posterior index .... 



Basilar angle ...... 



Facial angle to base of nasal spine . 

 Facial angle to alveolar border of upper jaw 



2-7' 



3-7" 



3-9" 



1-3" 



18" 



2-1" 



1" 



41" 



11" 



1-7" 



81 

 55 



19 

 65 

 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 braehy- 

 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^ of the senile settling 



^ 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 



