1905.1 SCANDINAVIAN CRANIA. 



berg presented one instance of dolicho-cephaly, two of mesati- 

 cephaly inclining towards brachy-cephaly, while four were distinctly 

 brachy-cephalic. The skulls from Sole gave two dolicho-cephalic, 

 two mesati-cephalic inclining towards dolicho-cephaly, and one 

 brachy-cephalic. The skull from Trondhjem was mesati-cephalic 

 inclining towards brachy-cephaly. Sixteen crania gave a cephalic 

 index below 77.5, while in the remaining eight the index was 

 above this figure. 



Method of Examination. 



All the skulls were subjected to a complete examination 

 after the manner laid down by Sir William Turner in his 

 memoir on Human Crania published in the Challenger Reports 1 , 

 and in addition they were measured by my segmenting callipers 2 

 with special reference to their transverse, vertical and antero- 

 posterior diameters. Both sets of measurements are given in 

 the appended Tables. 



General survey of the Crania. 



With very few exceptions these skulls could be described 

 as "well-filled". Indeed only one (359) was "ill-filled" although 

 other two (99 & 143) showed this tendency to a slight extent. 

 With one exception they were all "phanerozygous", although 

 two of them (308 & 292) barely approached this condition. The 

 female skull (289) was "cryptozygous". One (359) presented a 

 well-marked "keel", and in other two (244 & 284) there was a 

 tendency to this condition. In three of them (289, 286 & 146) 

 the frontal bone was "metopic", and with few exceptions the 

 others showed persistence of the frontal suture at lts nasal end. 

 In two cases (245 & 289) an epipteric bone was present in the 

 right pterion. In all the rest, this region appeared to be normal, 

 but several of them showed entire obliteration of the pterionic 



1 Challenger Reports, parts XXIX & XLVII. 



2 Hepburn, loe. cit. 



