NOTICE OF A SKULL BROUGHT FROM THE CRIMEA. 329 
years of age. The bones of the face are characterised by great 
delicacy. The zygomata are slight, and inclose a space proportionally 
small by the zygomatic arch. The face is altogether small for the 
head, giving the idea of a considerable breadth of forehead ; though 
it. will be seen that the parietal diameter is in greater excess than 
usual when compared with the frontal diameter. The teeth, the 
beauty and completeness of which attracted the attention of Dr. 
Turner when first exposed in the cemetery at Kertch, have since 
mostly fallen out: but with the exception of one decayed molar, 
such as remain fully accord with his description, and with the 
delicacy of the superior and inferior maxillaries. The forehead is 
smooth, with no projection of the frontal sinuses, and no depression 
above the nasal suture, but with marked frontal protuberances at 
the upper angles of the forehead. The occipital protuberance is 
slight, and the profile of the calvaria exhibits a markedly vertical 
aspect both in its frontal and occipital outlines. The frontal bone 
passes somewhat abruptly from the forehead to the top of the skull, 
thereby giving a square form to the profile instead of the more usual 
arched curvature ; so that, with the nearly vertical occiput, the 
cranium has a singularly compact outline, when viewed in profile. 
The parietal bones are large, with a gradually increasing protuberance 
to their greatest diameter, a little behind the line of the mastoid 
processes. Owing to this the outline of the vertical aspect presents 
somewhat the form of a truncated wedge, narrowing gradually and 
with a nearly uniform diminution until abruptly rounded off into the 
forehead at the frontal protuberances. 
The following are the most characteristic measurements of this 
skull :— 
Longitudinal Diameter .................. 6.7 
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Zygomatic Diameter ...............-..... 44 
Vertical rameter sa, es joe) St). al a 
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Horizontal Cireumference ............... 19.7 
Dr. J. Aitken Meigs has remarked in his ‘‘ Cranial Characteristics 
of the Races of Men,” chiefly founded on data supplied by the 
