340 LECTURE XII. 



portionately wideband the temporal fossEe are but little depressed 

 in the upper portion towards the vertex. The Romanic skull 

 is the widest ; were it not for the slight depression towards the 

 zygomatic arches and the narrowness of the forehead^ the con- 

 tour of the head would be nearly circular. The Lapp occupies 

 the intermediate place ; the contour of his head corresponds to 

 that of a short thick egg, with a flattened and narrowed 

 anterior end, Tbe malar bones at their junction with the 

 zygoma project more^ and on this account render the aspect of 

 the frontal region wider. Whilst in the Romanic skull the 

 posterior contour forms a flat arch somewhat depressed in the 

 centre^ it is in the Lapp more curved and somewhat projecting 

 in the central line. The greatest width of the Romanic skull 

 is in a backward direction almost opposite the last quarter of 

 the central longitudinal line of the skuU, whilst in the Lapp it 

 is in the last third of that line. 



The stone skull (fig. 102) is still na-iTower than the Lapp 

 skull, and by the projection of the supraciliary arches which is 

 wanting both in the Romanic and the Lapp skuU, the front part 

 of the oval which forms its contour is nearly as wide as the pos- 

 terior section. The zygomatic arches project somewhat more ; 

 the temporal lines are more deepened; the frontal protuberance 

 forms a continuous col before the contour of the receding nar- 

 row forehead. All this indicates a greater muscular develop- 

 ment, which, however, but little influences the cranial structure, 

 which is decidedly longer and narrower; the greatest width is 

 almost in the middle, but not so pronounced as in the Lapp and 

 the Romanic skull. 



The proportions of the head measurement confirm this view: 

 the mean in the stone skulls measured by Busk is = 78, 2 ; in 

 the Lapps = 87, 8 ; in the Romanic = 92, 1. 



I must, however, observe that the differences between the 

 stone skulls of various localities and the diS'erent sexes are by 

 no means insignificant. The skulls of Borreby are the widest 

 the mean of the head-measure being = 81, 3 ; the skulls from 

 other localities are narrower, the mean being = 75, 1 ; whilst 

 the supposed female skulls are = 79, 8. 



On viewing these heads in profile, there is also found no slight 



