The Madisonville Pre-Historic Cemetery. 243 
in the Anglo-Saxons, ancient Romans, and Roman British, and highest 
in the English (.770), French (.780), German (.790), and Prussian 
(.800 ).* 
(3.) SpectAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VARIoUS BoNES AND CAVITIES 
oF THE HEap. 
The Temporal Process of the Malar Bone. 
The writer takes the liberty of reproducing here his descriptiont+ of 
this process, with some additional data respecting the frequency of its 
occurrence. 
“ A noteworthy anatomical and possibly anthropological feature of 
a large proportion of the crania from the well known ancient cemetery 
near Madisonville, Ohio, is the presence of a spine-like and occasion- 
ally unciform process, situated on the-posterior border of the malar 
bone and partially covering in the temporal fossa. This projection, 
for which the writer proposes the name ‘temporal process,’ is some- 
what triangular in shape, its base, which is from 7 to 18 mm. in length, 
being continuous with the middle third of the posterior border of the 
bone; it tapers somewhat rapidly to its rather obtuse apex, its length 
varying from 4 to 8 mm. 
“It is of occasional occurrence also in negroes and mulattoes, and 
further observations as to its distribution and frequency in various 
races would doubtless be of interest.” 
Fig. 2 illustrates a well developed example, as seen in many of the 
Madisonville crania. Of 68 crania from the Madisonville cemetery, 
observed with reference to this process, it is present to the following 
extent: 
Well developed (attaining a length of 83 mm. and over)... 52 
Euaimentany(lessrthan 3 mm-)\ 6... 12.20. e lo. 13 
LE TOSEIING.. oo a SG ad che ae NED SREE AE a legn EE eee ee 3 
mI OUaul PRE ere ere asec ly ls Ct 68 
In one case it is observed to attain a length of 8 mm., and a width 
at base of 19 mm. 
Since the above announcement of this process, it has been observed 
in the two Australian crania in the museum of this Society; and in 
the cranium of a Buginese in the Mussey collection at the Miami Medi- 
* Vide “Thesaurus Craniorum,” by Dr. Barnard Davis, pp. 352-359, 
7 Read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science at its thirtieth 
meeting. Ciucinnati, August, 1881. 
