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was almost vertical, the frontal was flattened above, the glabella was feeble, the 

 nasion was not depressed. The maximum length could be only approximately 

 stated at 179 mm., but the breadth, 140 mm., was measured at the squamous 

 suture, and the basi-bregmatic height was 130 mm. The cephalic index was meso- 

 brachycephalic, approximately 78*2, the vertical index was 72*6, the breadth being 

 more than the height. The nasal index 52 was mesorhine, the orbit was rounded, 

 its megaseme index 100 ; the upper jaw was orthognathous (figs. 20, 21, p. 202). The 

 lower jaw had a good angle, the chin projected a little ; the teeth in both jaws were 

 not much worn. The palate-was hyperbrachyuranic (p. 186). 



Skull B consisted only of the calvaria, which was shorter and wider than A 



Fig. 22.— Birsley. 



in the transverse vertical arc; cephalic index 88 '6, hyperbrachycephalic. The 

 parieto- occipital slope was flattened ; the forehead was ample and flattened in front 

 of the bregma. 



Cousland, Mid Lothian. — Three imperfect skulls were obtained. A, probably 

 a male, with a metopic frontal and a right parietal. The glabello-lambdal diameter 

 was 180 mm., but the length and breadth could not be measured. The forehead 

 was capacious, the glabella and supraciliaries were feeble. The nasion was not 

 depressed, the nose w T as narrow, leptorhine ; the orbits were moderately rounded, 

 mesoseme ; the palato-maxillary index was brachyuranic. The lower jaw was 

 broken at the angle, the symphysis had a well-marked chin. The teeth were 

 flattened on the crowns. B was an adult male ; only the frontal and parietals were 

 preserved. The glabello-lambdal diameter was 173 mm., the greatest parietal 



