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Norma lateralis : prognathism is the chief characteristic. It is ‘ sub-nasal ’ 
and not suggestive at all of a negroid type. The teeth are small and 
do not project ; there is a slight occipital renflement ; otherwise, the 
median sagittal contour is regular. The mastoid processes are small, 
and muscular impressions are scarcely recognisable. 
Norma facialis: the transverse are is uniformly rounded. The face is 
leptoprosopic, with megaseme orbital apertures and a leptorrhine nasal 
aperture ; the breadth of the brain-case in the region of the pterion is 
considerable, and it shows that the skull was cryptozygous. 
Norma occipitalis : the contour is rounded or circular. 
15D. Of uncertain antiquity.—A skull with other bones. The 
antiquity of these specimens is quite uncertain. No data are available 
as to the locality whence they were derived. The collection comprises 
a cranium, two mandibles, a very long sacrum (index just under 83), 
a femur of the left side (with a small ‘third’ trochanter), a tibia, a 
humerus of the left side (perforation of the olecranon fossa), a radius 
and various odd vertebree. The cranium is fragile and apparently not 
ancient. 
Sex: male. 
Age: adult; the sagittal suture is closed at the obelion, and there is also 
synostosis in the coronal suture just above the pterion. 
Norma verticalis: the skull is mesaticephalic, and of ovoid form; it is 
cryptozygous. 
Norma lateralis : the brow-ridges are prominent ; the profile orthognathous ; 
the median sagittal arch culminates 4 cm. behind the bregma; there 
is a very slight occipital renflement ; the zygomatic arches are stout 
and the mastoid processes massive. 
Norma facialis : the face is broad and the transverse cranial are uniformly 
rounded. 
Norma basilaris: the palate is of elliptical form; the last upper molar 
tooth (the left) is the smallest of the series ; both tympanic bones are 
perforated ; there is an ossified ligament of Civinini on each side; the 
glenoid fosse are deep. 
Norma occipitalis: the contour is pentagonal. 
16D. Zakro (‘ Hogarth ’).—Found in a cave with many fragments 
of skulls and other bones. This specimen appears to be of recent date. 
The calvaria of a child of about six to seven years of age. It is 
brachycephalic; the measurements are only approximate, however; 
they are as follows—length ? 164, breadth 133, cephalic index 81°1. 
17D. ‘ Early’ Zakro (‘ Hogarth ’).—Possibly from a cave. A 
cranium without the mandible; the state of preservation is fairly good ; 
it has been varnished, and thus disintegration has been arrested. No 
marks of rootlets seen. 
Sex: female ; of feminine aspect throughout. 
Age: adult. 
Norma verticalis : the contour is of the elongated ellipsoidal variety ; the 
principal sutures are just about to close. 
Norma lateralis: the brow-ridges are small; the profile orthognathous. 
The forehead is high, for the frontal bone rises abruptly, the median 
sagittal curve culminating near the obelion and being somewhat 
flattened near the bregma. There is a slight occipital renflement. 
The zygomatic arches (broken) were slender. The vertical extent of 
the brain-case is small (tapeinocephalic). 
Norma facialis: the transverse cranial arc is perfectly rounded ; the face 
is small, the orbits microseme, the nasal aperture wide. 
