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has the vertical dip which, as Ecker has pointed out, is so character- 

 istic of such crania. As in typical dolichocephalic skulls, the 

 glabello-inial is shorter than the glabello-postremal line, and the 

 lambdoid suture comes largely into view. As in many 'priscan' 

 skulls, the coronoid process of the lower jaw fails to pass above the 

 level of the lower edge of the zygoma. The anterior margin of the 

 squamous nearly (but not quite, as drawn in the figure referred to) 

 reaches the frontal bone. The alveolar border of the upper jaw 

 describes a curve strongly convex downwards, and broken into, in 

 the horizontal plane, by the great prominence of the sockets for the 

 canines. 



The skull when placed without the lower jaw on a horizontal 

 surface is supported by the first and second upper molars and by the 

 conceptaculum cerebelli. When looked at in the norma frontalis 

 this skull strikes the observer, firstly, as being eminently well filled 

 or rounded out in the supra-temporal regions, but, secondly, as 

 having the impression of culture which is given by this development 

 neutralised by the peculiar conformation of the upper and lower 

 jaws. The large size of the sockets of the canines in both jaws 

 gives a squareness to that region of the face, whilst in the lower 

 jaw the triangular raised area of the mentum is feebly developed, as 

 compared with the alveolar part of the jaw. 



The lower jaw, when placed on a horizontal plane, touches it with 

 its inferior border on the left side only by a segment correspond- 

 ing with the two anterior true molars. A wide interval separates 

 the symphysis from such a plane, and though the angle of the jaw 

 on the right side does aid in supporting it when thus placed, that 

 on the left does not. Both angles are rounded off. The foramen 

 mentale on the left opens a little further back than is usual in 

 European jaws, viz. immediately beneath the second premolar. 

 Just above it is seen the opening of an alveolar abscess in relation 

 with the premolar, which appears to have been broken across mid- 

 way between its crown and its neck during life, and to have had its 

 pulp cavities consequently exposed. The apex of the coronoid pro- 

 jects only about one-tenth of an inch above the level of the condyle 

 when the jaw rests on a flat surface. Coupling these peculiarities 

 with the shortness of the coronoid and the worn condition of the 

 two anterior true molars, we may say that the lower jaw would, if 

 taken alone, have furnished a strong ground for conjecturing that 



