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The union of nasal bones with the maxilla, the frontal bone, and with one 

 another, and the closed foramen lacerum medium, are remarkable. The styloid 

 process is 40 mm. long. Extensive disease of ethmoid bone is present. 



1,043 $ , Pawnee, Fort Wolla, Arkansas. Aged 25 years, — cymbecephalic. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridges rudimentary, 1 mm.; outer half of superior 

 orbital margin slightly inclined 40°. — Nasal bones 24 mm.; frontal portion 1 mm.; 

 maxilla, premaxillary portion 25 mm.; bone narrowed and low arched at bridge. 

 — Nasal vestibule microlophic ; alveolar line defined, and is in plane of highest posi- 

 tion of the palatal aspect of the premaxilla ; spine single, conspicuous, as is also the 

 nasal crest. — Hard palate hyperbolic, shallow, 10 mm. high. — Choanse much wider at 

 base than apex. — Foramen lacerum medium open. Petrosa inflated. — Sphenoido- 

 tympanic suture overlapped by enormous spinous process. Rudimental paramastoid 

 processes present. The lachrymal bone with hamular process articulating with an 

 ossicle which intervenes between the process named and the maxilla. — Sconce 69 

 mm. — Temporal ridge with interruption at stephanion. The cymbecephalic is of high 

 grade. The skull rests on the opisthion ; the most posterior part of the skull is the 

 transverse occipital torus. 



540 9, Pawnee. Aged 25 years, — eurycephalic. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridge small, 1 mm.; supra-orbital margin 40°. — Nasal 

 hones mutilated. — Nasal vestibule microlophic. — Alveolus short, 11 mm. — The hard 

 palate hyperbolic on left side and slightly parabolic on the right. — The temporal 

 crest is interrupted, and the lambdoidal suture is harmonic within 10 mm. of the 

 asterion. — A mortise is present on line of the post-squamosal portion of the temporal 

 bone. — Sconce 106 mm. wide. — The skull rests on the opisthion and conceptacula. — 

 Malar bone with a small marginal process ; it enters into the spheno-maxillary fissure ; 

 a suture-trace is evident on inner side of the bone. — The teeth are absent from the 

 jaw. — The skull is prognathic. 



1,447 9 , Shoshoni. Aged 40 years, — angularly oblong. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridge moderate; supra-orbital margin, 50°. — Nasal 

 bone, frontal portion 3 mm.; maxillary portion 17 mm.; premaxillary portion 3 mm.; 

 radix 8 mm., 90° ; salient 9 mm., 30°. — Nasal vestibule analophic ; incisor crest none. 

 ■Nasal spine small. Alveolus 16 mm. high. — Hard palate parabolic. Alveolar pro- 

 cess 12 mm. high. — ChoanaB small, psedomorphic ; the left slightly the smaller. — 

 Foramen lacerum medium closed. — Spinous process notably overlapping sphenoido- 

 tympanic suture. Small parieto-sphenoiclal suture. Mortise present. Temporal 

 ridge interrupted at stephanion. Lambdoidal and sagittal sutures closed. — Malar 

 bone narrow, small marginal process bone enters into the spheno-maxillary fissure ; 

 suture-trace present. — Lachrymal bone small, reaches maxilla through hamular 

 process. — Rudiment of a transverse occipital suture present. — Skull rests on the 



