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norma verticalis, and comparatively flattened on the vertex. The frontal and parietal 

 eminences were distinct, and the skull sloped steeply downwards in the parieto-occipital 

 region, where it was unsymmetrical and flattened on the left side. The frontal 

 longitudinal arc was the longest ; the basi-bregmatic diameter was the same as the 

 parieto-squamous. The upper jaw was orthognathous, the nasal index was platyrhine, 

 the orbital index was microseme, and the palato-maxillary index was barely brachy- 

 uranic. Although I have given the measurements of the lower jaw sent with the skull, 

 I doubt if it really belonged to it. The cranial capacity was 1200 c.c. 



The skull was accompanied by other bones of the skeleton. 



Pelvis. — The measurements of the pelvis are given on page 78. The iliac fossas 

 were translucent, and the alas were expanded ; the subpubic angle was acute ; the 

 obturator foramen had a long vertical diameter. The pelvis was broad in relation to 

 the height, and the index was 72 '3. The transverse diameter of the pelvic brim 

 greatly exceeded the conjugate, and the brim index, 76 - 2, was platypellic. The 

 pectineal lines were knife-like ; the preauricular sulcus was faintly marked. Only four 

 sacral vertebras were present ; the body of the 4th was oval like a normal 5th, and its 

 laminas formed two sacral cornua and did not meet behind in a spine. The base of the 

 sacrum had on the right of its body an articular surface for the right transverse process 

 of the 5th lumbar vertebra. 



True Vertebras. — The cervical vertebras were normal. The dorsi-lumbar vertebrae 

 were eighteen in number. The 10th had a single facet on the side of the body for a part 

 of the head of the 10th rib ; the 11th and 12th had single facets for their corresponding 

 ribs, they had both rudimentary transverse processes, and the inferior articular processes 

 of the 12th dorsal were convex, and looked forwards and outwards. There were six 

 vertebras between the 12th dorsal and 1st sacral. The first of these approximated in 

 shape to the 12th dorsal; its transverse processes were rudimentary, and showed the 

 superior, inferior and external tubercles. On the side of the pedicle, immediately in front 

 of the external tubercle, was a smooth facet 2 mm. in diameter, apparently for the head 

 of a rudimentary rib ; its articular processes had the characters of a lumbar vertebra. 

 The remaining five vertebras had the customary lumbar characters, and the right 

 transverse process of the lowest was divided by a deep furrow into a non-articular part, 

 and an articular part which was jointed to the base of the sacrum. The vertical 

 diameters of the bodies of these vertebras, in front and behind, was as follows : — 





Ant. V. Diam. 



Post. V. Diam. 



Index. 



Dorsi-lumbar, 



23 mm. 



26 mm. 



113 



1st lumbar, . 



24 „ 



26 „ 



108-3 



2nd „ . 



24 „ 



25 „ 



104-1 



3rd „ . 



23 „ 



24 „ 



104-3 



4th „ . 



22 „ 



22 „ 



100- 



5th „ 



24 



21 



87-5 





Total 117 mm. 



Total 118 mm. 



Mean 100-8 



