244 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—1912. 
22D.—A skull without the mandible; there is a large deficiency 
on the left side; the outlines of the nasa] and orbital apertures had 
to be cleared by removing an adherent mass of soil. 
Sex: male. 
Age: adult. 
Norma verticalis : the contour is that of a very long ellipse, which is regular 
and symmetrical. The skull is just cryptozygous. 
Norma lateralis: the profile is orthognathous; the brow-ridges are but 
slightly prominent ; the frontal arc rises abruptly above them ; at the 
bregma a slight flattening occurs, and the sagittal curve culminates 
about 5 cm. behind this. Occipital bulging is small in amount. The 
mastoid processes are large. 
Norma facialis: the cranium is slightly but certainly scaphoid ; the face 
has the leptoprosopic proportions characteristic of the majority of 
this series ; the nasal aperture is narrow. 
Norma occipitalis : the form of the contour is rather circular than pentagonal, 
but does not conform precisely to either description. 
23D.—A calvaria, consisting of the frontal, two parietal; the 
eecipital, and the left temporal bones; the base is embedded in hard, 
dry clay, which forms a cast of the endocranial cavity. 
Sex: male. 
Age: adult ; synostosis is advanced in the sagittal suture. 
Norma verticalis : a very long elliptical skull. 
Norma laterdlis: brow-ridges only moderately developed. The median 
sagittal arc culminates 4 to 5 cm. behind the bregma ; occipital renfle- 
ment is distinct. 
Norma facialis: a slight but distinct degree of the scaphoid character is 
observed in the transverse cranial arc 
Norma occipiialis: the contour is pentagonal, the cranium being distinctly 
‘ wall-sided.’ 
24D. ‘ Just anterior to the Geometric Period’ (? late Mycenzean).— 
A calvaria with the skeleton from a Jarnax; the skeleton was in the 
contracted position. It is extraordinarily brittle. 
Sex: male. 
Age: adult, or senile. 
Norma verticalis : the most interesting point is that the calvaria is nearly 
brachycephalic ; synostosis of the cranial sutures is almost complete. 
Normalateralis : the brain-case is rather flat ; the brow-ridges are prominent ; 
the median sagittal curve is flattened near the bregma. Occipital 
renflement is slight ; there is a marked occipital torus. The mastoid 
processes are small. 
Norma occipitalis: the contour is pentagonal; the transverse occipital 
torus with the conceptacula cerebelli beneath it are prominent details 
of conformation. 
The limb bones are so delicate and slender as to suggest the female sex, 
but this is largely discounted by the brow-ridges and occipital torus. 
But in any case the senile changes obscure the general cranial features 
of value in determining sex. 
26aD. Knossos (Myceneaan).—Period probably about 1800 B.c.; 
found in a magazine beneath a vase, attributed to the earliest period of 
the palace to which a date can be assigned. A calvaria; the base, face, 
and mandible are absent. 
Sex: male. 
Age: adult ; sutures open ; denticulation not complex. 
Norma verticalis : elongated and elliptical ; ‘ well-filled.’ 
