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jaw, probably belonging to it, indicates age by the wear of its 

 teeth and the loss of all its molars, except one on each side. The 

 jaw is somewhat atrophied in consequence of this, and the ramus 

 lies obliquely to the body of the bone. 



Ext. length in inches 



Ext. breadth 



Vert, height . . . 



Absol. height . 



Frontal arc 



Parietal arc 



The high basilar angle of this skull shows that if it had retained 

 its maxillary bones and teeth it would, in all probability, have 

 rested upon its occipital condyles and teeth when placed on a flat 

 surface. Having a high figure for its vertical arc, coupled with 

 the ordinary length of basi-cranial axis, its cranial vault has been 

 rotated forward so as to throw the bregma far (viz. r 8 oths of an 

 inch) in front of a line drawn from the auditory foramen upwards 

 at right angles to a horizontal line. The highest point in the 

 vertical contour is 2*1 posterior to the coronal suture, and from 

 this highest point the parietals slope over, so as to form an equable 

 incline with the superior occipital squama. There is a very large 

 occipital spine which hinders the exterior surface of the skull from 

 showing any great difference between the glabello-postremal and 

 the glabello-inial diameters. The conceptaculum cerebelli, though 

 sloping upwards, is yet far from approaching the vertical line as 

 nearly as in typical brachy cephalic skulls. The forehead slopes 

 gently from the line of the largely-developed supraciliary ridges to 

 that of the frontal eminences, after which it passes, with greater 

 obliquity, into the upwardly-inclined plane of the anterior halves 

 of the parietals. The frontal is markedly carinate, its mesial 

 elevation passing continuously onwards into the still better marked 

 parietal ridge, on either side of which a post-coronal depression is 

 visible exteriorly, corresponding with an inwardly-looking convexity 

 of the inner skull table. It presents a well-marked pentagonal 

 outline when viewed in the occipital norma, the parietal tuberosity 

 being nearly as well marked as the mesial vertical carina. 



Swell i. (c). — Netherswell, Dec. 1867. — Strong man, past middle 

 period of life. To this cranium may probably be assigned the 

 femur, measuring 18-4 inches, as also the bones found in situ, 

 September 22nd, 1874, but without a head. The other two male 



