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from Sutherland had the teeth much more complete, but the cranial sutures were in 

 process of obliteration. 



In the norma verticalis each skull had an elongated ovoid outline, though one was 

 proportionately wider than the other, and the cephalic indices were respectively 75 

 and 72 "8, dolichocephalic; the sagittal line was ridged, and the side walls were bulg- 

 ing but the Sutherland specimen had, as is unusual in the male skull, the greatest 

 breadth in the parietal region. In the Sutherland cranium the height was materially 

 less than the breadth, but in that from Ross these dimensions were equal. In both, the 

 occipital squama bulged backwards, especially in the Ross specimen. In both, the inter- 

 zygomatic diameter was less than the greatest breadth of the cranium ; they were crypto- 

 zygous. In both, the glabella and supraorbital ridges moderately projected, and the 

 forehead had a slight backward slope. In the Ross cranium, a slight vertical transverse 

 depression, as if from a constricting band in infancy, was behind the coronal suture. 

 In both, the occipital longitudinal arc was the shortest ; in one, the frontal arc exceeded 

 the parietal ; in the other, the opposite condition was met with. 



The nasion was moderately depressed, the bridge of the nose was prominent, the 

 anterior nares were narrow, the maxillo-nasal spine, especially in the Sutherland 

 cranium, was projecting ; the nasal index was leptorhine. The upper jaw in both was 

 orthognathous. The face was elongated and relatively narrow (leptoprosopic), both in 

 the complete facial and maxillo-facial indices. In one, the orbital index was microseme, 

 in the other megaseme. In the Sutherland specimen the palato-alveolar index was 

 dolichuranic. The cranial capacity was 1415 and 1510 cub. cent, respectively. 



The Ross cranium had small Wormian bones in the lambdoidal suture, also one in 

 the left half of the coronal suture, and a very narrow parieto-spheuoid articulation. 

 The cranial bones generally were thin and translucent. The Sutherland cranium was 

 free from sutural or other ossific variations. 



Hebrides. Table XIV. 



Tn April 1833, Mr Donald Gregory presented to the Phrenological Society of 

 Edinburgh * six skulls as those of " Druids from the Hebrides " (Henderson Trust 

 collection, Nos. 48-53). In commenting on these specimens, Sir Daniel Wilson t states 

 that one w r as brought from Harris, and that the others were no doubt obtained during 

 excavations carried on by the Iona Club in the island of Iona, in the ancient cemetery 

 called " Relig Oran." Iona, he says, is sometimes called the isle of Druids, and the 

 designation affixed by Mr Gregory to these crania only signified that he believed them 

 to have belonged to the native population prior to the landing of St Columba and the 

 introduction of Christianity in the sixth century. It is to be regretted that in each 

 skull the cranium only has been preserved, and in No. 52 it has been so much injured 



* Phrenological Journal, vol. ix. p. 86, 1836. 

 t Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, first edition, p. 173, 1851. 

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