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at the locality described (Gerry) is being made in the laboratory, 

 all the approved osteometric measurements and indexes being taken. 

 Although this work is but partially completed at this writing, it is 

 possible to give some of the figures and a few descriptions of the 

 various morphological characters which the bones exhibit. 



Crania. The crania, for convenience in study, have been 

 ranged in three classes as follows : brachycephalic, with indexes 

 above 80; mesaticephalic, with indexes between 75 and 80; and 

 dolichocephalic, with indexes below 75. 



It is not possible in a preliminary report of this kind to describe 

 at length each skull or give the various minor measurements. 

 Type skulls of each group will, therefore, be taken. 



Specimen 4503, a male taken from burial 5. This skull is the 

 best preserved of any found and is the heaviest, weighing 24 

 ounces. It is that of a person of mature years, between 50 and 60. 

 The teeth which remain are well preserved, but there are cavities 

 in the superior right canine and in the adjoining premolar. On 

 the right side in the upper jaw the molars are entirely lacking 

 and the matrices filled. The third molar on the left seems to 

 have been lost a short time before death. The first premolar on 

 the left is abnormal in that it grows out at an angle. This 

 has resulted in it being worn obliquely and protruding over 

 the premolar beneath. On the opposite side the premolar is normal 

 in form, but between it and the canine there is a supernum- 

 erary tooth. The denture of the lower jaw is normal and there 

 are no cavities in the teeth which remain. On the left side all the 

 premolars are gone and the matrices healed and closed. On the 

 right side one molar and the other teeth remain. 



The inferior maxillary is well preserved. It is remarkable for 

 the squareness of the chin, the mental tubercules on either side 

 being pronounced. They flare out from the body of the maxillary 

 and give the chin a width of 57 millimeters. 



The sigmoid notch is cre^centic and not parabolic. In breadth, 

 measuring from the crests of the coronoid processes, the jaw is 

 107 millimeters, and a line drawn from a point midway between 

 the angles to the point of the chin gives a length of 70 millimeters. 



The palate is worthy of note because of its several peculiarities. 

 The transverse suture has entirely united and several spinous 

 processes have formed on each side of the sagittal suture. The 

 posterior palatine canal on the right is larger than that of the left 

 due to the absorption or the retarded growth of the septum. These 



