238 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—-1912. 
4D, with skeleton. From a larnax (locality not given): just anterior to 
Geometric Period. 
25D, with skeleton. From a tomb. Between Mycenwan and Geometric Periods. 
26D a, Knossos. Mycenean. 
27D a, Gournia. From tombs (not larnakes). 
Group II.—Excavations at Roussolakkos &c. in 1903. 
26D to 34D.° Roussolakkos, Ossuary, Compartment I. 
35D to 44D. “ “6 x II. 
45D to 64D. 4 Til. 
65D to 84D. Provided for Compartment IV., but no crania obtained here. 
85D to 104D. Roussolakkos, Ossuary, Compartment V. 
105D to 124D. Patema. 
125D to 146D. Roussolakkos: Ossuary, No. 2. 
150D to 160D. Agios Nikolaos. 
1D. Palaikastro.—A calvaria consisting of the frontal, parietal, and 
temporal bones: the cranial base, the facial bones, and the mandible 
have been destroyed. 
Sex: probably male. 
Age: adult. 
General condition: fragmentary and extremely fragile ; the indications are 
of small size and feeble musculature. 
Norma verticalis : long and narrow ; this effect is heightened by posthumous 
lateral compression. The cranial sutures are open. 
Norma lateralis : the lateral flattening is attended by an increase in vertical 
height. The brow-ridges are not prominent; nor are the parietal 
ridges. The mastoid processes are of moderate size. 
Norma facialis: the posthumous compression has increased a pre-existing 
tendency to scaphocephaly. 
Norma basilaris: the glenoid fosse are of moderate depth ; the tympanic 
bones are imperforate. 
Norma occipitalis : the contour is not distinctly pentagonal, the ape being 
rounded off. 
3D.—This specimen consists of a few fragments of the cranial 
vault. The skull was probably dolichocephalic; the dimensions of the 
plaster casing (now removed) indicate such proportions. 
Sex: probably female. 
Age: adult but not senile, although the sagittal suture has commenced to 
close. 
The general indications are of slight muscular and physical development. 
4D.—A calvaria, consisting of frontal, parietal, occipital, and 
temporal bones: The base, the facial bones, and the mandible have 
been lost. 
Sex: male. 
Age: fully adult, but not senile ; synostosis in the three chief sutures. 
Norma verticalis: a long ellipsoidal skull; probably cryptozygous. 
Norma lateralis: massive brow-ridges, stout zygomatic arches; large 
massive mastoid processes; at the inion a distinct transverse torus 
culminates in a median spinous protuberance. The median sagittal 
curve rises gradually from the ophryon to culminate 5 cm. behind the 
bregma. 
Norma facialis: the transverse arc is uniformly rounded, with very slight 
bilateral postb:egmatic flattening. 
9 For each compartment or ossuary a distinctive range of numbers was set aside, 
the range being ten or twenty units. Where the special number of skulls was not 
actually obtained, the numbers remain as blanks, so that when 160D Agios Nikolaos 
is mentioned, it does not follow that the total count of ancient Cretan skulls examined 
amounted to 160. The numbers are inclusive. oe 
