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HAWAIIAN SKULLS 



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The measurements of the two parietal bones are in essentials the same, 

 excepting on the lambdoidal border, where the affected side is lo mm. longer. 

 The circumference, however, often contrasts ; the measurement on the sagitto- 

 squamosal suture being 8 mm. less on the right than on the left side, while the 

 bregmasquamosal is lo mm. more. The skull height is greater on the right 

 side by 4 mm., and the bregma-auditory circumference greater by 5 mm. 



An Acco7mt of a Child' s Skull whose Teeth . exhibit the Effects of 

 Measles on the Enamel: these Appearances being coi-r elated 

 ivitli Changes in the Facial Bones 



Six skulls of children are not accounted for in the above enumeration. 

 In two of these the six-year molar had not been erupted, and the interfrontal 

 suture was open. -The remaining skulls (Nos. 695, A. N. S., 1680, A. N. S., 

 2096, A. N. S., and 1 124, H. U.) will receive some notice. The six-year molar 

 was erupted in all, and the interfrontal suture was closed. With the excep- 

 tion of 1 1 24, H. U., which was about thirteen years of age, the skulls were 

 from individuals barely twelve years of age. Still, the skulls as numbered 

 can be compared, for the general appearances of age were in all much the 

 same. 



The measurements of the facial region were as follows : 



It will be observed in these figures that the proportion of the nasal index 

 to the orbital index in specimen No. 11241$ of higher grade than in any 

 other crania. This can scarcely be due to age, since there is not more than a 

 year's difference between the skulls. The interorbital diameter in this skull 

 is also much the smallest of the series, a striking fact when the tendency 

 to constancy of this measurement is remembered. The least and greatest 

 facial diameters, face height, and palatal length and width are all smaller than 

 in the other specimens. 



The acutely arched nasal bones, the ascending process of the maxilla 



