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Of these, seventy-three are adults and six are young. Forty-two adults are 

 regarded as males, twenty-six as females, whilst the sex of five is either doubtful or 

 not specified. 



Table II. 



Tasmanian Crania, Oxford University Museum. 





No. 1 



No. 2 



No. 3 



No. 4 



No. 5 



No 6 



Collection number 



1017 



1019 



1020 



1021 



1021a 



1021b 



Age, 



Adol. 



Ad. 



Aged. 



Ad. 



Ad. 



Ad. 



Sex, ..... 



F. 



F. 



F.1 



M. ? 



M. 



F. 



Cubic capacity, 



1200 



1160 



1120 



1220 



1180 



1060 



Glabello-occipital length, 



185-5 



174- 



181* 



181- 



174-5 



166 



Basi-bregmatic height, . 



125 



133 



122 



128 



128 



126 



Vertical Index, 



67-4 



76-4 



67-4 



70-7 



73-3 



75-9 



Minimum frontal diameter, 



90 



96 



91 



95 



98 



87 



Stephanie diameter, 



100 



111 



104 



110 



113 



106 



Asterionic diameter, 



104 



105 



98 



104 



99 



100 



Greatest parieto -squamous 















breadth, 



132 



127 



129 



142 



135 



131 



Cephalic Index, 



711 



73 



71-2 



78-4 



77-3 



78-9 



Horizontal circumference, 



503 



485 



493 



503 



488 



469 



Frontal longitudinal arc, 



129 



125 



123 



129 



120 



112 



Parietal ,, ,, 



125 



118 



114 



127 



119 



112 



Occipital „ ,, 



112 



105 



115 



107 



111 



106 



Total 



366 



348 



352 



363 



350 



330 



Vertical transverse arc, 



290 



292 



280 



308 



300 



287 



Length of foramen magnum, . 



40 



37 



34 



32-5 



30 



32 



Basi-nasal length, . 



94 



98 



92 



9S 



98 



95 



Basi-alveolar length, 



95? 



105 



91? 



97? 



100 



94 



Gnathic Index,. 



loi- 



107-1 



98-9 



98-9 



102' 



98-9 



Interzygomatic breadth, 



ns 



129 





128 







Intermalar „ 



107 



117 



117 



112 



112 



105 



Nasio-alveolar length, 



58? 



58 



56? 



57? 



57 



61 



Maxillo-facial Index, 



47-1 



449 





44S 







Nasal height, 



43 



42 



44 



46 



44 



47 



Nasal width, 



28 



29 



27 



26-5 



26 



27 



Nasal Index, 



65-1 



69- 



61-4 



57-6 



59' 



57-4 



Orbital width, 



40 



43 



37 



38 



40 



40- 



Orbital height, 



33 



30 



29-5 



31 



30 



30-5 



Orbital Index, 



82-5 



69-8 



78-4 



81-6 



75- 



75- 



Palato-maxillary length, 



55 



59 



50 



56 



55 



52 



Palato-maxillary breadth, 



62 



65 



64 



65 



63 



61 



Palato-maxillary Index, . 



112-7 



110-1 



128- 



116- 



114-5 



117-3 



Length of molars and pre- 















molars, .... 



50 



40 



44? 



43 



42 



41? 



Dental Index, 



53-1 



40-8 



47-8 



43-8 



42-8 



43-1 



[From the measurements of Knowles and Freire-Marreco, recorded in Table II., three of the 

 Oxford skulls are below 75, i.e. are dolichocephalic ; one at 77'3 is in the lower term (below 

 77'5) of the mesaticephali, and two are in the upper term of that group ; the mean cephalic index of 

 the series is 75. With the exception of No. 2, the height is less than the breadth, and the mean 

 vertical index is 71 "8. In the projection of the jaw taken by Flower's method, no skull was ortho- 

 gnathous, one was prognathous, the others were mesognathous, and the mean of the series, 101*1, was 

 mesognathous. All the skulls showed a wide platyrhine nose, and the mean nasal index was 61*6; 



