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Laterally, the bregmatic projection is well marked, and the narrow ellip- 

 soidal character of the skull is ver)' noticeable from above. The frontal bone 

 resembles the frontal of Specimen i, but its distinctive abnormalities are not so 

 well developed. The coronal suture is markedly serrated in the f^ars complicata. 

 The left pterion presents two superimposed epipteric bones, and possibly tlic 

 remains of a third (fused). 



By means of this fusion there exists a left squamosofrontal suture. 

 The parietal eminences are present to a slight degree, and one parietal 

 foramen exists on the right parietal bone. The sagittal suture is well dentated 

 The lambdoid suture is extremely irregular, and contains a number of Wormian 

 bones, with indications of the previous presence of others. Thev are specially 

 marked on the right side. There is a strong occipital torus. The grooves of 

 compression are present as in Specimen i. 



The orbits are equal in breadth and in height, the ratios being 3 ■() W . 

 3 '3 H. The infraorbital suture is present on both i^ides. and tlie malar Ijones 

 are very slightly included in the inferior orbital fissure, the area on the right 

 being but a pin-point: that on the left only a few mm. This non-inclusion of 

 the malar bones in the inferior orbital fissure in cases where the infraiir1)ital 

 suture persisted, has been noted in manv other skulls. 

 The lacrimo-ethmoidal suture is of normal width. 



The right supraorbital notch is duplicated, and on the left is replaced bv a 

 single foramen. 



The lacrimal bones are continued forward to the inferior margin of the 

 orbit by means of an interposed bonv ossicle (see fig. 58). 



The inferior border of the nasal aperture is infantile, 

 and small subnasal fossae are present below and lateral to 

 a well-marked subnasal spine. 



Of the teeth only it remain, the rest having been lost 

 post-mortem. The upper third molars are just desci-nding: 

 the lower have attained their full development. Xo caries 

 is present. 



There i-~ little of impc^rtance in the norma basilaris. The 

 anteridr border (if the foramen magnum ha^ l)cen broken 

 away: a post-condyloid canal exists on the right: none is 

 present on the lett. 



The sutures of the skull are everywhere patent, including the basi-s]>hennid, 

 wiiich is beginning to show early signs of fusion. Fig. 59. 



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 iitnres. 



