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forehead; also a few bones of the body. The outer surface of the 
skull, and to a less extent that of the bones, show remains of red 
pigment, apparently ocher; but it does not seem, notwithstanding 
the absence from the specimens of red stains ventrally, that the pig- 
ment was applied as a paint. The cranium is so damaged that no 
measurements of importance are obtainable. 
The various ridges and processes on the bones indicate a powerful 
musculature. The upper portion of the right femur shows marked 
platymery (3.9 x 2.75 cm. at the broadest part of the flattening). 
The left femur has strongly developed linea aspera. 
A portion of the right tibia is diseased; this is considerably thick- 
ened and the surface bears evidence of some slow inflammatory 
process—possibly syphilis. 
The portion remaining of the left tibia is normal. The shaft is of 
shape 3;% it measures, at about the middle, 3.45 cm. in the antero- 
posterior and 2.55 cm. in the lateral diameter. 
The humeri give the following dimensions at the middle: Diameter 
antero-posterior, right, 2.7 cm.; left, 2.55 cm. Diameter lateral, 
right, 1.8 cm.; left, 1.9 cm. 
U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 249683 (exact locality not given): Parts of 
five femora. 
All of the specimens in this lot show defects due probably to cutting 
as well as to the gnawing of rodents. These are found on both ends 
of each bone, and when the bones are placed side by side the defects. 
appear to be similar, reaching in a more or less rounded way into the 
wall of each bone posteriorly, below the trochanters. The similarity 
of the effects produced argues against them being the work of rodents 
alone, although signs of rodents’ teeth are plain everywhere in the 
cuts. : 
Physically all the femora show strongly developed linea aspera; 
they show also more or less marked platymery (specimen A, 3.5 x 2.5 
cm.; specimen B, 3.4 x 2.6 cm.; specimen C, 3.2 x 2.55 cm., at the 
greatest breadth of the flattening). 
Nat. Mus. no. 249684; original no. 40 (exact locality not given): 
Bones from the right lower limb of a female adult skeleton. 
Femur broken, shaft shape 1, strong linea aspera, marked third 
trochanter and pronounced tubercle at the top of the anterior inter- 
trochanteric line. Diameters at the broadest part of the sub- 
trochanteric flattening, 3.25 x 2.3 em. 
Right tibia, shaft shape 1; length, 34.7 em. The bone is not 
platyenemic and besides its natural stoutness the shaft is slightly 
thickened by disease. 
a See ‘‘Typical forms of shaft of long bones,’”’ in Proc. Assoc. Amer. Anatomists, 14th ann. sess., 1900, 
55 et seq. 
