78 



PROFESSOR SIR W. TURNER ON 



though in some they were more or less obliterated. The skull marked Pan Cole 

 had a transverse depression behind the coronal suture as if from wearing a band 

 during infancy. Wormian bones were present in the lambdoidal suture in several 

 specimens. Three crania had a single epipteric bone, and in No. 25 the squamous tem- 

 poral articulated with the frontal ; no skull had a third condyle, but in No. 557 each 

 occipital condyle was divided into an anterior and a posterior facet. The jugal 

 processes were sometimes tuberculated. The crania rested behind either on the mas- 

 toids or occipital region. Several specimens showed the infra-orbital suture, and in one 

 of these the superior maxilla and sphenoid articulated at the anterior end of the spheno- 

 maxillary fissure. The cranial capacity ranged in twelve men from 1176 to 1470 c.c. ; the 

 mean of the series was 1305 c.c, and seven specimens exceeded the mean. In the 

 three women the range was from 1000 to 1180, and the mean was 1097 c.c. 



No. 605, Biphaiya Miinda from Madkom village, near Ranchi, was accompanied 

 by a skeleton, the bones of which I have examined. 



Pelvis. — The chief measurements of the pelvis are given below. The alse 

 were expanded and the iliac fossa were not translucent ; the subpubic angle was 

 relatively wide ; the pectineal lines were not knife-like ; there was a shallow preauricular 

 sulcus. The breadth-height index of the entire pelvis was 81 "2. The transverse 

 diameter of the brim was much more than the conjugate, and the brim index was 

 86' 7, i.e., platypellic* The sacrum consisted of five vertebrae, and the sacral index 

 was 110*5, i.e., platyhieric. 



Measurements of Pelvis. 



Collection, Indian Museum, . 



No. 605 



No. 604 











Sex, ..... 





M. 



M. 











1. Breadth of pelvis, 





245mm 



246mm 











2. Height of pelvis, . 





199 



178 











3. Breadth-height Index, . 





81-2 



72-3 











4. Between ant. sup. iliac spines, 





215 



222 











5. Between post. sup. iliac spines, 





82 



73 











6. Between ischial tubera, . 





136 



116 











7. Vertical diameter of obturator foramen, . 



45 



48 











8. Transverse diameter of obturator foramen, 



33 



29 











9. Obturator Index, ..... 



73-3 



60-4 











10. Subpubic angle, .... 





83° 



62* 











11. Transverse diameter of brim, . 





113 



114 











12. Conjugate diameter of brim, . 





98 



87 











13. Pelvic Index, 





86-7 



76-2 











14. Length of sacrum, 





95 



4 vert. 











15. Breadth of sacrum, 





105 



102 











16. Sacral Index, 





1105 



... 











True Vertebrae. — The cervical vertebras were normal. Of the twelve dorsal vertebras 

 1st to 8th were normal. The 9th had a small costal articular facet at the upper border, 

 but none at the lower border of the side of the body. The 10th, 11th, and 12th had 



* For the meaning of this and several other descriptive terms used to denote proportion between certain diameters 

 of the skeleton, see my Report on Human Skeletons, in Challenger Reports, Part XLVIL, 1886. 



