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and the whole facial structure delicate. The head of a woman of about forty years.*— 
I, C. 90 cubic inches. F. A. 81° Pelasgic form. 
Plate I., Fig. 2, (Cat. 837.) A large and ponderous skull, with a broad but low 
forehead, and very prominent superciliary ridges. ‘The vertex is elevated, the occipital 
region remarkably full, and the parietal diameter large. ‘The bones of the face are 
delicately formed, the nose long and aquiline, the orbits rounded, the teeth vertical.— 
I. C. 97 cubic inches. F. A. 83°. Pelasgic form. 
This is the skull of a man who may have reached his fiftieth year. The teeth are 
much worn, and parts of the sutures nearly obsolete. This person, long antecedent to 
his death, had received a severe wound over the right orbit, beginning at the nasal bone 
and extending upwards and outwards nearly two inches, fracturing and depressing both 
tables of the skull. ‘The consequent deformity is manifest, although the cicatrization is 
complete. 
B.—FROM THE MEMPHITE NECROPOLIS. 
Eleven skulls from various mummy pits in the great Necropolis of Saccara. In Mr. 
Gliddon’s memoranda he remarks that these heads were mostly taken, from the mum- 
mies themselves, and from the best constructed pits; and that having been enclosed in 
coffins painted and otherwise ornamented with different degrees of care, they probably 
pertained to the higher class of Egyptians. 
Plate II., Fig. 1. (Cat. 808.) A large elongate-oval head, with a broad, high forehead, 
low coronal region, and strongly aquiline nose. The orbits nearly round; teeth perfect 
and vertical.—I. C. 97 cubic inches. F. A. 77°. Pelasgic form. 
Plate IL, Fig. 2. (Cat. 815.) A beautifully formed head, with a forehead high, full, 
and nearly vertical, a good coronal region, and largely developed occiput. The nasal 
bones are long and straight, and the whole facial structure delicately proportioned. Age, 
between thirty and thirty-five years.—I. C. 88 cubic inches. F. A. 81°. Pelasgic form. 
Plate IL., Fig. 3. (Cat. 812.) Skull of a woman of twenty years? with a beautifully 
developed forehead, and remarkably thin and delicate structure throughout. The frontal 
suture remains—I. C. 82 cubic inches. F. A. 80°, Pelasgic form. 
Plate I., Fig. 4. (Cat. 806.) A thin cranium, of a short-oval form; the forehead is 
broad, the coronal region low, and the whole face prominent. Age, about thirty years. 
I. C. 83 cubic inches. J’. A. 77°. Egyptian form. 
Plate II., Fig. 5. (Cat. 814.) Cranium of a man of eighty or ninety years, with a 
full but rather receding forehead, and stony developed cranial structure.—I. C. 97 
cubic inches. Pelasgic form. 
Plate II., Fig. 6. (Cat. 810.) An cameos conformation, as seen in the broad, high 
forehead, full occiput, and gently aquiline nose.. Probably a female of twenty years.— 
I. C. 86 cubic inches. F. A. 78°. Egyptian form? 
Plate II., Fig. 7. (Cat. 805.) A narrow, elongated head, with an indifferent frontal 
region. A man of fifty?—I. C. 79 cubic inches. IF, A. 83°. Pelasgic form. 
* The letters I. C., denote the internal capacity of the cranium.—T’, A., the Facial Angle. The skulls of persons 
under sixteen or eighteen years of age are seldom measured, and never admitted into the computations of this memoir. 
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