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Museum at Leyden. There is also a great number of measure- 

 ments given, but unfortunately the greater part of them are 

 of no use for our purpose. The capacity is stated at 39 ounces 

 of millet. Judging from the picture it is a very powerful 

 skull, with a long, strong face, very prognathous, having large, 

 very prominent teeth, large and broad lower jaw, the nose 

 long, high, and thin, the eye-cavities low, imperfectly rounded, 

 and very much aslant. As their height is given at '031, the 

 breadth at *041, the orbital index 75*6 would be chamaekonch. 

 The inter-orbital distance is mentioned as *024. The author 

 himself describes the cranium as oval, with a very high crown, 

 sides very much flattened, with slightly projecting tubera, the 

 back head oblong and by no means spheroid, the under parts 

 rather flat ; the eye-cavities oblong in the tranverse axis, the 

 fissura orbitalis posterior wide, the ends {vertices) of the 

 upper jaw hollowed out (excavatus), on the lower rims cut out 

 (exsectus), and passing obliquely into the likewise oblique and 

 projecting alveolar process of the maxillary bone ; the palate 

 much arched (fornicatum) and oblong. I remark that its 

 length is stated at '059, its breadth in the region of the 

 third molar at *041, in the regim of the prse-molars at "039 ; 

 out of the first two measures would result a palatal index of 

 69 "4 : consequently an extremely leptostaphyline measure, 

 which indeed does not afford an exact comparison with my 

 measure taken in the region of the second molar. The 

 vertical height of the skull is stated at -145, the tuberal 

 parietal breadth at -126, the jugal breadth at -138, and the 

 distance of the maxillary angle at -110. 



I find another statement in the catalogue of the Vrolik 

 Museum in Amsterdam,* where, under No. 66, is mentioned 

 the skull of a native of Ceylon, which Professor Bernard had 

 furnished. It is compared with the cranium Cingalensis of 

 Sandif ort, from which it is said to be distinguished chiefly 

 by its less prognathous jaw. It is described as a fine, strong, 

 dolichocephalous and somewhat prognathous skull, the 



* Musee Vrolik. Catalogue par J. L. Dusseau. Amsterdam, 1865, p. 22. 



