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middle life, for the teeth were much flattened from use, but the sutures, iucluding 

 the frontal, were distinct. In the norma verticalis this skull was broadly ovoid, 

 and in its general character well filled ; it was not ridged in the sagittal region. 

 Although the length was 188 mm., the greatest breadth was as much as 147 mm., 

 and 120 mm. at the asterion. Its cephalic index was 78*2, mesobrachycephalic. 

 It was cryptozygous. The glabella and supraciliary ridges moderately projected, 

 the forehead was slightly receding. The vertex was somewhat flattened, the slope 

 outwards and downwards to the eminences was moderate and in the parieto-occipital 

 region it was not abrupt ; the occipital squama projected behind the inion. The 

 basi-bregmatic height was less than the maximum breadth, and the vertical index 

 75 was metriocephalic. The nasion was somewhat depressed ; the nasal bones were 

 moderate in length, concave in the bridge and projected downwards and forwards ; 

 the height of the nose was more than twice the width, and the index was almost 

 leptorhine, 48 "2. The transverse diameter of the orbits was greater than the 

 vertical, and the index was microseme, 82*5. The alveolar border of the upper jaw 

 was damaged in the incisor region, but the gnathic index, approximately 96, was 

 obviously orthognathous ; the face was moderately high, the index 92*6, lepto- 

 prosopic. The lower jaw was massive, with a strong chin, deep symphysis, well- 

 defined angle, and the teeth were much worn. The palate was deeply arched. The 

 palato-maxillary index 121 was hyperbrachyuranic. No special modifications of the 

 bones were noted, except the metopic suture. The cranial capacity was 1530 c.c. 



The cranium B, apparently that of a man, was 189 mm. long; but as the left 

 side, which was probably that on which it had rested in the chamber, had been 

 broken away, it was not possible to obtain either the frontal or parieto-squamous 

 breadth. The asterionic diameter was only 100 mm. From the general aspect 

 of the fragment, it is probable that in its proportion of length to breadth, in its 

 gradual slope downwards in the parieto-occipital region, and in the convex occiput, 

 the cranium was dolichocephalic ; the basi-bregmatic height was materially below 

 that of skull A, and the vertical index 69*3 was chamsecephalic. 



The cranium C, apparently a man, had also lost a large part of its left side. 

 Its length was 175 mm., but the frontal and parietal breadths could not be taken. 

 The parieto-occipital slope was very like that of B ; but as the asterionic diameter 

 was somewhat greater, it is possible that in its proportion of length and breadth 

 C may have been intermediate between A and B. Its vertical index 7 4 '9 was 

 metriocephalic. 



In 1), only the frontal and parietal bones had been preserved ; the glabello- 

 lambdal length was 165 mm., the parietal breadth was 136 mm., and the index 

 computed from this length was 82*4. In E, only the right half of the cranium 

 had been preserved ; the frontal region had feminine characters, which were also 

 met with in one of the broken lower jaws, so that one of the skulls was without 

 doubt that of a woman. Skull E inclined to be dolichocephalic. 



