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of the bregmatic projection characteristic of the deliberately distorted skulls, 

 and of the grooves of compression. 



The coronal suture is not inclined posteriorly, and at the right i)terion is 

 the large epipteric bone already mentioned. 



The parietal eminences are marked. 



The sagittal suture is very denticulated, and at the lamlida are two large 

 ^^'ornlian bones, flanked on the right by four others, and on the left by a single 

 companion. At each asterion a small \\'ormian lione is developed, and still 

 another is seen at the angular junction of the superior Ijorders of tiie sciuamous 

 and mastoid portions of the temporal bone. 



The occipital bone is not flattened ; there is no torus occipitalis. In norma 

 occipitalis the skull is pentagonal in section, the sidelines falling sharph- in fi-oni 

 the parietal eminences and showing a marked flattening aljove and liehind tlu- 

 mastoids. 



In norma facialis one notes the presence of a supraorbital foramen on the 

 left, and a notch on the right. Infraorbital sutures are present on both sides. 

 ;ind the malar bones are excluded on each side from participation in the forma- 

 tion of the inferior orbital fissure. The lachrymo-ethmoidal sutures are very 

 narrow. 



On the floor of the right orbit exists a large semilunar opening conununi- 

 cating with the antrum of Flighmore near its superoposterior angle. 



The orbits are unequal in size being respectively ;^:y W. 3 :o H (right ). .-md 

 3:6 W, 3:1 H (left). 



There is a marked subnasal prognatliism : the nasal aperture is incomplete 

 inferiorly tending to the infantile type. The nasal bones are flask-shaped, anil 

 the right overlaps the left so as to exclude it from the frontonasal suture excejii 

 at a pinpoint. 



In norma basilaris there is little of importance. 

 The left maxilla articulates with the right pala- 

 linee l)one (Fig. 63); the basilosphenoid suture is 

 wide; the foramen magnum rounded and irregular; 

 |)(ist-condyloid canals exist on either side. 



The left side of the skull is smaller throughout. 

 The teeth are all present and perfect. On both 

 sides of the upper jaw the third molar is descend- 

 ing, in the lower jaw it is already fully erupted. 



The sutures are everywhere patent. p.^ 



Palatomaxillarv sutures. 



