296 Prof. Macalister, On a Collection of Crania [April 29, 



(2) A Description of Bengal Crania. By R. J. Horton-Smith, 

 B.A,, Scholar of St John's College, Cambridge. 



The following eight crania from Bengal, of which I propose to 

 give a brief description, were presented to the University Museum 

 by Prof. Havelock Charles. They belonged to individuals who 

 died in hospital and whose history is consequently known. Prof 

 Macalister exhibited some of them at a meeting of the Philo- 

 sophical Society a short while ago, and at his request I have 

 undertaken to describe them. 



Of the eight skulls six are male and two female. The measure- 

 ments and indices are given below, but a few words about each 

 here may not be out of place. 



Skull 1214. Belonged to a low caste Hindoo, 40 years old and 

 of the male sex. On the right side are two epipteric bones and 

 one wormian bone in the lambdoid suture ; there is a very small 

 epipteric bone on the left side, as well as another wormian bone in 

 the left lambdoid suture. The sutures, on the whole, are rather 

 simple. 



Skull 1215. This cranium belonged to a male Hindoo of the 

 high Kayasth caste, age 32. Two wormian bones exist in the left 

 lambdoid suture, near the asterion ; there are also two in the right 

 lambdoid suture. The greater part of the right occipito-mastoid 

 suture is obliterated. 



Skull 1216. This was the cranium of a male Hindoo of 

 the Kayasth caste, age 40. The sutures are simple. On both 

 sides wormian bones are to be found in the lambdoid and squamous 

 sutures ; epipteric bones exist also on either sides and wormian 

 bones in the right occipito-mastoid suture. 



Skull 1217. Male Hindoo: coolie by occupation, aged 18. The 

 sutures are rather complicated, especially in the case of the coronal 

 suture. On the right side there is a wormian bone in the 

 squamous suture, near the pterion. Three large and many minute 

 wormian bones exist in the right lambdoid suture, while there are 

 five in the left suture. 



Skull 1219. Low caste Hindoo female, aged 30. The coronal 

 suture below the stephanion is nearly obliterated. The sutures 

 are very simple. There is only one wormian bone present ; this is 

 to be found in the right lambdoid suture. 



Skull 1253. Skull of a Mussulman, aged 30 ; by occupation a 

 coachman. There is a very large interparietal bone, 935 mm. broad 

 and 55 long, as well as two wormian bones at the right asterion 

 and a few minute bones of a similar kind in the right half of the 

 coronal suture, and in the suture joining the interparietal and 

 supraoccipital bones. The sutures are fairly simple, with the 



