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assigns to that type of cranium. The basi-bregmatic diameter was much less than 

 the greatest breadth. The cranial capacity was 1600 c.c. 



The smaller of the two crania was apparently a female. It was narrow in the 

 frontal region, and gradually widened backwards to the parietal eminences, where the 

 cranium had the greatest transverse diameter. The flattening at the vertex was also 

 well marked in this skull. In the relations of length and breadth it was distinctly 

 brachycephalic, 80 # 6. An injury to the base prevented one from taking the basi- 

 bregmatic diameter and internal capacity. 



c. Dunbar. — The skull, an adult male, was obtained at a burial-place in Dunbar, and. 

 is numbered 4 1 in the catalogue of the Henderson Trust. It was broadly ovoid in form* 

 and sloped gently backwards and downwards in the parieto-occipital region. The 

 cephalic index, 77 "5, was mesaticephalic ; the basi-bregmatic diameter was much below 

 the parieto-squamous. The face was orthognathic, the nose was leptorhine, the orbit was 

 wide in relation to the height, and the palate was hyperbrachyuranic. The skull was 

 metopic, but the most striking peculiarity was a double parietal bone on the left side.* 

 The intraparietal suture was strongly denticulated, and completely divided the left bone 

 into two unequal moieties. The upper part was 106 mm. in antero-posterior diameter 

 and 78 mm. in vertical diameter; the lower part was 104 mm. in antero-posterior and 

 38 mm. in its least vertical diameter. At the anterior or coronal end of the dividing 

 suture two small sutural bones were interposed between it and the coronal suture, and 

 the skull was depressed somewhat in this region. The lambdoidal and coronal sutures 

 were strongly denticulated, and a small epipteric bone was situated in each pterion. All 

 these sutures were distinctly marked on the inner table, though much more feebly 

 denticulated than in the outer table, and it was observed that small sutural bones 

 were differentiated in the inner table both at the lambdoidal end of the intraparietal 

 suture and within the lambdoidal suture, additional to those already referred to in the 

 exterior of the skull. A short paracondyloid process projected downwards from the 

 under surface of the left jugal process. 



Mid-Lothian. Tables III., IV., V., VI., VII. Plates II., V. 



Collections of skulls were obtained from different localities in the county of Mid- 

 Lothian. They may conveniently be arranged in three groups : — 



a. Those collected in churches and churchyards in rural districts. 



b. Those obtained from a church and churchyard near the sea coast. 



c. Those obtained from interments in Edinburgh or its immediate vicinity. 



a. Of those gathered in rural districts seven were procured from a churchyard on the 

 western border of the county. They are distinguished in Table III. by the letter E. 



* I have described a similar condition in the right parietal of an Admiralty Islander in Challenger Reports, 1884, 

 part xxix. plate iv. p. 57, and in the right parietal of an Australian in Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, vol. xxv. 

 pp. 462-473. 



