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of slight build and feeble physique. They resemble even more 

 closely in this point and some others the ' hypsistenocephali ' of 

 Dr. Barnard Davis. The one eminently distinctive and character- 

 istic point of these dolichocephalic skulls is the forward position 

 of the parietal tuberosities, and of the ear, with which is correlated 

 even in female skulls (as for example ' Sherburn Wold, vii. 1/ 

 p. sc8) an oblique slope as opposed to a precipitous vertical dip in 

 the parieto-occipital region. The temporal lines and the half of 

 the lambdoid suture are seen laterally in nearly or quite their 

 entire length. The forehead may be, and indeed often is, low as 

 viewed in the norma lateralis and narrow as viewed in the norma 

 verticalis, and may very well merit the description 'frons valde 

 depressa' which Sir R. C. Hoare bestowed (Archaeologia, xix. p. 46) 

 on some long-barrow skulls dug up by him ; but it rarely manifests 

 that pronounced obliquity, ' le front fuyant,' so common in brachy- 

 cephalic skulls, and shown so plainly in the figure of the skull 

 ' Rudstone, lxiii. 9,' p. 192 supra. In many, and especially in the 

 weaker, dolichocephalic skulls the more strictly calvarial portion of 

 the frontal bone rises from a plane considerably posterior to that of 

 the supraciliary ridges, a peculiarity which, when the frontal rises 

 nearly vertically to the level of its tubera, and when, as is very 

 often the case in this variety of cranium, the supraciliary ridges are 

 confluent across the middle line, gives a very characteristic appear- 

 ance to these skulls. Just as the line of the os frontis in these 

 cases lies some way within the line which the contour of the supra- 

 ciliary ridges would describe if produced, so the line of the posterior 

 half of the parietals lies often well within the line which the 

 produced contour of the upper occipital squama would give us. 

 This peculiarity is ' die facettirte Absetzung des Hinterbaupts ' 

 spoken of as eminently characteristic of the Hohberg type of skull 

 by Professors His and Rutimeyer. It is however, though common, 

 not by any means constant in otherwise typical dolichocephalic 

 skulls of the stone age, as might have been expected, the occipital 

 segments proper, both of brain and of skull, being exceedingly 

 variable 1 in development; and the 'capsulares Hinterhaupt,' as 



1 Aeby, ■ Schadelformen,' p. 1 2 ; Welcker, ' Wachsthum und Bau,' pp. 36, 46, 65, 141 ; 

 Huschke, I.e. pp. 19, 21, 94, 96, 98, 152, 153, 156 ; B. Davis, ' Thesaurus Cran.' p. 351 ; 

 ' Gall. Sy st. Nerv.' iii. 1 60 ; Virchow, ' Gesaram. Abhandl.' p. 9 1 6 ; Cleland, ■ Phil. Trans.' 

 1870, p. 132; Wundt, 'Physio-log. Psychologies 1873, p. 229, citing H. Wagner; 



