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set obliquely, so that the occipital squama formed a shelf-like projection. The shelf 

 added several millimetres to the absolute length of the skull and influenced the 

 cephalic index, the total longitudinal arc and the longitudinal circumference. The 

 Museum contains other four crania not described in this memoir, two of which were 

 obtained in the dissecting-room, in which a similar shelf-like character is present. 



In both the Lanarkshire skulls the basi-bregmatic height was below the greatest 

 breadth. In both the face was orthognathic and leptoprosopic ; the nose was leptorhine, 

 the orbit was megaseme ; in the Bothwell specimen the palato-alveolar arch was 

 brachyuranic. 



Peeblesshire. Table VIII. 



Three imperfect adult and apparently female skulls from this county are in the 

 collection ; one from Linton (H.T. 40) was found in a moss, but it is not peat-stained; 

 the two others are from the parish of Wiston. In one skull the length-breadth index 

 was hyperbrachycephalic, 85*6 ; in the two others in the higher mesaticephalic group, 

 78. In all three the basi-bregmatic diameter was materially below the parieto-squamous 

 breadth. The cranial measurements were on a small scale, indicative of the sex. The 

 face in each skull was so much injured that the facial measurements could not be taken. 



Roxburghshire. Table VIII. 



The collection contains two skulls which were obtained in Butts Lane, Kelso, in 

 1864, during the construction of a system of sewage. One belonged to a skeleton lying 

 at full length in a grave formed of slabs of stone loosely placed together. The other 

 was got in close proximity to this grave, but the finder could not tell me if it were 

 in a similar grave, or was in a collection of human bones unenclosed in coffins in the 

 surrounding earth. One was that of a man advanced in years, with the alveolar arch 

 absorbed ; the other was apparently that of a woman.* 



In their general form, as seen from the norma verticalis, the crania were elongated 

 ovoid, with somewhat bulging side walls, with no sagittal ridge, with the postero-parietal 

 region steep, and with a convex occipital squama. The proportions of length and 

 breadth were almost identical ; the cephalic index, 76*2 and 76 '3 respectively, was in the 

 lower mesaticephalic group. In each skull the basi-bregmatic height was much less than 

 the greatest breadth. In the female the face was orthognathous, leptoprosopic, lepto- 

 rhine, megaseme, and hyperdolichuranic ; in the male the corresponding indices, so 

 far as they could be computed, were mesorhine and mesoseme. In each skull the cranial 

 capacity was more than 1500 c.c. 



* A description of the find is given by me in Proc. Scot. Soc. Antiquaries, June 1865, vol. vi. p. 245. 



