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of fire, that little or nothiiig can be said about them except that they 

 ■seem all to belong to one skeleton (there being no duplicate of parts), 

 which, it may be assumed from the size of the mastoid processes, was 

 that of an adult male. 



(J) The greater part of a skeleton of an infant. 

 These bones show no traces of the action of fire. 



{c) The skull and many of the other bones of a young person, all 

 much " weathered," and extremely brittle from loss of animal matter. 

 The skull was in so fragile a condition, that in order to enable it to 

 stand the handling necessary for examination and measurement it had 

 to be painted over with a solution of gelatine. 



The body evidently lay on its left side, as the bones of that side 

 (especially the bones of the skull) are much more affected by damp 

 than those of the right. The skull is that of a young person under 

 eighteen years of age and most probably a female. Much injured by 

 damp, the outer table of the left parietal bone and the left zygoma 

 being weathered away. It is of small size and symmetrical in shape. 

 Yiewed in norma verticalis, the shape of the cranium is a broad blunt 

 oval, in norma lateralis the forehead is seen to be upright, with well- 

 marked fi'ontal eminences, vertex high and prominent, occipital region 

 flattened off above superior curved line. 



Mastoid processes very small, and glabella absent, all markings 

 slight. The cephalic index is on the border line between the mesati- 

 cephalic and brachycephalic classes. Frontal bones grooved. Pace, 

 medium width. Left molar bone and zygoma weathered away. IN'ose, 

 evidently lej)torhine. Orbits round, megaseme. Palate deep. Teeth 

 all present at time of death, small and sound. Third molars not 

 erupted. 



Mandible, much weathered on left side, so no measurements are 

 obtainable. The angles are strongly marked, and the mental pro- 

 cess prominent and square ; slightly concave at symphysis, so that 

 it has an almost forked appearance. Teeth were all present at time 

 of death, sound, and not much worn on crowns. 



Sutures. — All open (including the basilar suture), those of the 

 vault very complex ; three epactals in lambdoid suture. 



There is little worthy of record to be observed in the other bones, 

 ribs, vertebrae, clavicles, scapular radii, and ulna?, fibula?, patellae, 

 bones of the hands, feet, and tibiae, except that by their stage of 

 development they aid in determining the age of the person to whom 

 they belonged, and that by the absence of any duplication of ports 



