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I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length . 

 Fronto-inial length 

 Extreme breadth . 

 Vertical height 

 Absolute height . 

 Basi-cranial axis . 

 Circumference 



7" 



7" 



5-6" 



5-6" 



5-4" 



4" , 



20-3 



Frontal arc 

 Parietal arc 

 Occipital arc . 

 Minimum frontal width 

 Maximum frontal width 

 Maximum occipital width 

 proximatively 



II. Measurements of Face. 

 Length of face : 'nasal- alveolar' line 

 Breadth of face : * interzygomatic ' line . 

 * Basio-subnasal ' line ..... 



1 Basio alveolar ' line 



Height of orbit 



Width of orbit . . . . . 



Length of nose ...... 



Width of nose .... 



ap- 



2-6" 



5-2" 



3-7" 



3-8" 



i-i" 



i-7" 



2" 



i-i' # 



Lower jaw, interangular diameter 36' 



Lower jaw, depth at symphysis . . . . . i.±t 

 Lower jaw, width of ramus 1.3'' 



III. Indices. 



Length-breadth index : ■ cephalic index ' . 



Antero -posterior index 



Basilar angle . 



Facial angle to nasal spine 



Facial angle to alveolar border 



80 

 54 



25 

 70 

 66 



4-6' 

 4-7' 

 5-i" 

 4" 



4-7" 



ILDERTON, NORTHUMBERLAND. 



The femur of the skeleton to which this skull belonged is 19-1" 

 in length, and has its various ridges, and especially that which is 

 in relation with the insertion of the glutaeus maximus, considerably 

 developed. The humerus is \i>f long, and by examination of this 

 bone, of the femur, of the skull, and the lower jaw, we are enabled 

 to say that they belonged to a strong male in the later part of the 

 middle period of life, probably about fifty years of age and 5' 9" in 

 height. In the greater obliquity of its forehead and the larger deve- 

 lopment of its supraciliary ridges this skull differs from the one which 

 precedes it, and forms a connecting link between such skulls as that 

 and the one which is described at pages 190, 194, viz. 'Rudstone, lxiii. 

 9/ The relations between the basi-cranial axis, the basio-subnasal 

 line, and the basio-alveolar respectively, as well as the verticality of 

 the pterygoids, show that this skull is essentially orthognathous, as 

 His and Riitimeyer in treating of skulls of a similar type, viz. 

 their ' Disentis ' type, say (' Crania Helvetica,' p. 27) all pre-historic 



