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maxilla, and the lower jaw. The basilar process and the antra of 
Mighmore show some firmly adhering material referred to as gravel, 
and in many places the specimen has remnants of a coating (0.25 to 
1.5 mm. thick) of apparently calcareous stalagmite. 
The general somatological aspect of the skull is in no way extraor- 
dinary. It is plainly a male skull and belonged to an individual of 
advanced years, but not of extreme age. In form it was in all prob- 
ability mesocephalic, and of medium height. The face was only mod- 
erately broad for a male; its height can not be ascertained on account 
of an advanced absorption of the upper alveolar process, but was 
apparently in no respect unusual. The nose is very slightly plat- 
yrhynic (nasal index 53.5), a form that occurs quite commonly 
among Indian crania; and the orbits (with breadth measured from 
dacryon) are megaseme (index of right 95, of left 91), a condition 
not infrequent among Indians. Facial prognathism was insignifi- 
cant; aveolar prognathism can not be determined. 
The forehead is of medium height and prominence, showing no 
sloping such as might be expected in a male skull of a low form. The 
temporal ridges are not pronounced or high. The supraorbital 
ridges are strong, but not more so than in some modern masculine 
Indian crania; they extend, however, along the whole superior 
border of the orbits, a much less common form. The glabella is a 
little less prominent than the ridges; as a result of this formation 
there is between the latter a shallow depression. 
The face is somewhat damaged, but permits of a number of desir- 
able determinations. The nasion depression is pronounced; there is 
nothing peculiar about the nasal bridge or bones; the nasal aperture 
is pyriform, with the left notch somewhat lower than the right; 
there are shallow nasal gutters (not rare in the Indian); and the 
spine was well developed. The orbits are slightly ovoid in shape, 
their distal part being higher than the proximal, and deep; their 
borders are not sharp. The malars are of ordinary form and mod- 
erate size, not unusually protruding; the marginal process is not 
large; the zygome are strong; the submalar (“canine”) fosse are 
fairly well hollowed. The upper alveolar border shows a loss of all 
the teeth and in front an advanced alveolar absorption (to within 
11 mm. of the nasal notch on the right, and to within even a shorter 
distance on the left, side) ; but as an indication of age these condi- 
tions do not agree with the state of the sutures, and are there- 
fore probably of pathological origin. The palate offers nothing 
exceptional. 
What remains of the temporal bones presents ordinary features, 
with a medium-sized masculine mastoid. 
As for the base, the glenoid cavities are deep and rather narrow 
antero-posteriorly; there are high spinous, and quite high vaginal, 
