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vertical index, 71, was less than the cephalic. The occipital arc was longer than the 

 frontal and parietal. The nasion was not depressed ; the nasal bridge was moderately 

 projecting ; the maxillo-nasal spine was distinct, and a sharp ridge separated the floor of 

 the nose from the incisive region. The upper jaw was orthognathous ; the maxillo- 

 facial index was leptoprosopic ; the nose was elongated and leptorhine ; the orbits were 

 mesoseme. The skull had the massive character, with the ample dimensions which one 

 sees in so many adult Scotchmen. Except that the hard palate was deeper than usual, 

 the skull showed no special variations in ossification. 



. Stirlingshire. Table VIII. 



Two crania were found in a moss at Kilsyth ; one belongs to the Henderson Trust 

 collection, No. 27 ; the other to the Ballingall collection in the University Museum. 

 They are both stained almost black by the peat in which they were lying, and they are 

 injured as if from swordcuts received in battle. The skull in the Henderson Trust 

 collection is referred to in Wilson's Prehistoric Annals. They were adult males, and 

 one was metopic. 



Norma verticalis. — One cranium was rounded in outline and brachycephalic, with 

 the cephalic index 83'8 ; the other was a little more elongated, and the index was 78'1. 

 In both, the basi-bregmatic diameter was much below the parieto-squamous breadth. 

 The vertex was flattened, the slope outwards to the parietal eminences was gentle and 

 the side walls were somewhat bulging ; the parietooccipital slope was abrupt, but the 

 occipital squama was not flattened. 



Norma lateralis. — The glabella and supraorbital ridges were distinct but not 

 specially prominent ; the forehead was only slightly retreating. The bridge of the nose 

 was moderately projecting ; the nasal floor was separated from the incisive region by a 

 definite crest. In the brachycephalic skull the nasal index was mesorhine, the orbital 

 index microseme, the gnathic index mesognathous, the palato-maxillary index brachy- 

 uranic ; the complete facial and maxillo-facial indices were chamseprosopic. In the 

 other skull the corresponding indices were leptorhine, megaseme, orthognathous, 

 brachyuranic and leptoprosopic. 



Lanarkshire. Table VIII. 



The collection contains two skulls from this county, one from the parish of Both- 

 well and the other from New Lanark. They were both males ; the Lanark skull was 

 advanced in years ; in the Bothwell specimen the sutures were undergoing obliteration. 



Norma verticalis. — Both were elongated ovoids, not specially flattened on the 

 vertex, sloping downwards to the parietal eminences and with vertical sides. Both 

 were good examples of dolichocephalic crania ; but the length of the skull from New 

 Lanark, 201 mm., was promoted by the Wormian bones in the lambdoidal suture being 



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