438 NOTES ON SKELETON FOUND AT CISSBURY. 



shall very rarely fail in the lower races of mankind to find the 

 former of these distances much exceed the latter ; and it is certainly 

 only in the lower jaws of the higher races that we find the opposite 

 proportion to prevail. So that if it were not wearisome to add to 

 the list of indices, an anteroposterior index might be established 

 for comparing the relative proportions of the two segments of the 

 usually curved liue described by the posterior surface of the 

 symphysis. 



The length from the foramen specified to the alveolar edge of 

 the symphysis is in the female jaw i»i inch as against -85 inch in 

 the male, whilst the distance from the same foramen to the mental 

 border of the symphysis is in the female jaw -6 inch as against -7 

 inch in the male. 



The following general conclusions appear to be deducible from 

 the foregoing descriptions and comparison of the two Cissbury 

 skeletons : — 



Firstly, that from the osteological peculiarities either of the 

 cranium or of the lower jaw, or of the trunk and limbs, or of the 

 skelelon as a whole, arguments of considerable cogency may be 

 drawn for or against the 'priscan' date of a human skeleton, 

 independently of the arguments to be drawn from its archaeological 

 surroundings. 



Secondly, that in skeletons proved to be priscan by both the 

 above lines of argumentation, points of difference will still be 

 found to exist, independent on the one hand of points of sexual 

 difference, and in spite, on the other, of any tendencies to uni- 

 formity, which the supposed uniformity of priscan life may be 

 thought likely to produce. 



MEASUREMENTS OF MALE SKELETON FROM 

 CISSBURY, APRIL, 1878. 



Measurements of Skull, Face, and Lower Jaw. 



