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THE MADISONVILLE PRE-HISTORIC CEMETERY : 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES. 
By F. W. Lanepon, M.D. 
In the three previous papers relating to the above-mentioned ceme- 
tery which have appeared in this JournaL,* attention has been directed 
chiefly to the status of the pre-historic inhabitants of this region, as 
manifested by their works and appliances ; it is proposed, however, in 
this, the fourth paper of the series, to present some facts relative to 
peculiarities of the people themselves. 
With this object in view, a table of cranial measurements is herein 
given, together with notices of such other osteological features as may 
be of ethnical, anatomical or surgical interest. 
The table of measurements has been prepared by Dr. C. L. Metz 
and the writer, conjointly, with occasional assistance from Mr. Charles 
F. Low ; acknowledgments are due both these gentlemen for their 
hearty co-operation in other respects. The writer also desires to ex- 
press his sense of -indebtedness to Professors F. W. Putnam and 
Lucien Carr, of the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and 
Ethnology, for various publications and suggestions which have been 
of value in the preparation of the present paper. 
The internal capacities of the crania have been determined by means 
of dried peas, after the method pursued by craniologists generally, and 
are given in cubic centimetres; other measurements are in millimetres. 
The indices of breadth and height are in decimals, being the proportions 
borne by these dimensions to the long diameter. 
No attempt has been made to estimate the brain weight ; the capa- 
cities recorded, therefore, represent simply so much cubic space. 
The sex has been determined, so far as practicable, from the general 
skeletal development and the shape of the pelvis ; it is hardly neces- 
sary to add that due allowance should be made here for possible errors. 
* Vol. iii., 1880, pp. 40-68 ; pp. 128-139; pp. 203-220. 
