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petrous parts and rudimentary styloids—all characteristic Indian features. The 
nasal aperture is mesorhinian (index 50.), the mean index of the two orbits is 
mesoseme (87.), neither of which is exceptional. The teeth are of moderate size 
and normal form, but both of the third molars are congenitally absent. 
* Measurements : 
* Diameter antero-posterior max. 17.5 сіп. 
* Diameter lateral max. 15.65 * 
* Facial height (alvion-nasion) 6.95 * 
“ Facial breadth (d. bizygomatie max.) 13.25 * 
* Upper Facial Index 52.5 
“Height of nose, 4.8: breadth max., 2.4 em.; 
“ Height of right orbit, 3.2; of left, 3.5 em.; 
“ Breadth of right orbit, 3.8; of left, 5.7 em.; 
“ Maximum circumference of skull above supraorbital ridges, 49.2 em.; 
4 Nasion-opisthion are 35.3 em.; 
“Thickness of left parietal 4-6 mm. 
«T trust the above report will prove of some utility. It should be kept in 
mind that, except under very special circumstances, an examination of a single 
skull is of little significance and not fit to base any important conclusions upon." 
On our first visit a fragment of a skull showed moderate artificial flattening. 
Many other smaller fragments gave no evidence of this treatment. 
A small number of fragmentary skulls, found at the time of our second visit, 
showed the effect of moderate cranial compression ; while a far larger number of 
fragments evidently belonged to normal skulls. 
During our first investigation, fragments of human remains were found pre- 
sumably bearing traces of the effects of a specific disease, At our second visit 
many bones were found, sometimes a number belonging to one skeleton, showing 
such decided lesions that all these remains were carefully put aside and, later, 
were given by us to the United States Army Medical Museum. The result of 
investigation at that institution has kindly been reported to us as follows : 
“Dr. James Carroll, First Lieut. and Asst. Surgeon, U. S. Army, Curator 
Army Medical Museum, 
« Sir :— 
“In accordance with your instructions I have the honor to report that the 
lot of bones from mounds at Moundville, Ala., contributed by Mr. Clarence B. 
Moore, comprised about 70 pieces, some of them rather fragmentary. Of these 70, 
1 William С. Mills, M.Sc., found a large number of syphilitie bones in the Baum prehistorie vil- 
lage site, Ohio. “ Explorations of the Baum Prehistoric Village Site,” Fifteenth Annual Publication 
Ohio State Archzeological and Historical Society. i 
e also “ Der Ursprung der Syphilis (Morbus Amerieanus)." Internationaler Amerikanisten- 
Kongress, Stuttgart, 1904. “ Der Ursprung der Syphilis,” Jena, 1901; both by Dr. Iwan Bloch. 
2 With these bones were sent certain reunited fractures and some normal bones belonging to 
skeletons showing abnormalities. 
