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XVI. 



STUDIES IN IRISH CRANIOLOGY : II. INISHBOFIN, CO. 

 GAL WAY. By ALFRED C. HADDON, Professor of Zoology, 

 Royal College of Science, Dublin. 



[Read November 13, 1893.] 



The thirteen crania from the island of Inishbofin, Co. Galway, herein 

 described, form part of a collection of Irish crania that I gave to the 

 Anthropological Museum of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1890. So 

 far as I am aware they are the only specimens from that island, or 

 indeed from that district of Ireland, to be found in any museum, 



Not one specimen in the collection is perfect, most of them being 

 broken calvaria. They are considerably weathered ; this prevents 

 most of the measurements from being absolutely accurate, and as a 

 matter of fact, makes them a trifle smaller than would be the case 

 had the crania been uneroded. 



As the Catalogue of the Crania in the Museum is not yet com- 

 pleted, I have been obliged to refer to these specimens by means of 

 alphabetical signs. 



Desceiption op the Ceania. 



A. — Cranium, adult female, under fifty years of age. Teeth absent, 

 but from the alveolar sockets it is evident that the full complement 

 of teeth was present. The glabella corresponds to No. 1 of Broca's 

 figures.^ The sutures are fairly simple, corresponding to Broca's 

 3 to 4 ; the pterion is in H, the suture being 20 mm. long on the 

 right side, and 26 mm. long on the left; there are no wormian 

 bones. 



An interesting point about this cranium is, that a ragged fissure 

 extends down from the centre of the parieto- mastoid suture, over the 

 outer surface of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone, to the tip of 



' Broca, Paul: " Instructions Craniologiques," Mem. Soc. d'Anlh., ii., 2 ser. 

 -1875, pi. VI. 



