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occipital. The recently fractured surfaces show that the 
skull was broken at the time of its disinterment. The 
cavity holds 16,876 grains of water, whence its cubical con- 
tents may be estimated at 57.64 inches, or 1033.24 cubic 
centimetres. In making this estimation, the water is sup- 
posed to stand on a level with the orbital plate of the frontal, 
with the deepest notch in the squamous margin of the 
parietal, and with the superior semicircular ridges of the 
occipital. Estimated in dried millet-seed, the contents 
equalled 31 ounces, Prussian Apothecaries’ weight. The 
semicircular line indicating the upper boundary of the 
attachment of the temporal muscle, though not very strongly 
marked, ascends nevertheless to more than half the height of 
the parietal bone. On the right superciliary ridge is observ- 
able an oblique furrow or depression, indicative of an injury 
received during life.* The coronal and sagittal sutures are 
on the exterior nearly closed, and on the inside so com- 
pletely ossified as to have left no traces whatever, whilst the 
lambdoidal remains quite open. The depressions for the 
Pacchionian glands are deep and numerous ; and there is an 
unusually deep vascular groove immediately behind the 
coronal suture, which, as it terminates in a foramen, no 
doubt transmitted a vena emissaria. The course of the 
frontal suture is indicated externally by a slight ridge; and 
where it joins the coronal, this ridge rises into a small protu- 
berance. The course of the sagittal suture is grooved, and 
above the angle of the occipital bone the parietals are 
depressed. 
mm.f 
The length of the skull from the 
nasal process of the frontal 
over the vertex to the superior 
semicircular lines of the occi- 
pital measures . . . . . 303 (300) =12°0”. 
* This, Mr. Busk has pointed out, is probably the notch for the frontal nerve. 
+ The numbers in brackets are those which I should assign to the different 
measures, as taken from the plaster cast.—G. B. 
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