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rising abruptly. It reaches its height at the coronary 



suture ; behind this is a slight depression ; the vertical height, 



a finger's breadth behind the coronaria. The back slope of 



the parietal curve begins in the region of the tubera, and is 



very long ; the squama superioris is strongly convex. The 



temporal fossw large, andreachingto the tubera par ietalia, and 



beyond the lambdoidal suture. The front part of the temporal 



fossw uneven and rugged. The squama temporalis on 



either side flat and high, especially on the left. On either 



side a strong processus frontalis, which is only somewhat 



indistinct because of the extensive synosteosis of the coronaria. 



The ala temporalis low and quite overlaid by the very broad 



process, which extends from the squama temporalis, pretty 



regularly on the right, somewhat jagged on the left, but on 



both sides pointed in front. In consequence of this stenokro- 



taphy we find, however, that the very much depressed place 



is pretty low down upon the ala, indeed, immediately at the 



juncture of the sutur a spheno frontalis, zygomatico frontalis, 



and spheno zygomatica. The process appears more pointed 



on the left, on the right almost trapezoidial. The measures 



amount to : — T) . T 



Right. Left. 



Length of proc. temp, upper ... 15 mm. ... 12 mm. 



Do. under ... 10 mm. ... 9 mm. 



Breadth of ala temp. ... ... 19 mm. ... 18 mm. 



In the norma occipitalis the contour of the skull is almost - 



pentagonal, the side parts going almost straight down, only 



diverging at the base, the roof with slightly arched lateral 



parts, the base tolerably straight. The squama superioris 



strongly prominent and flattened at the sides. No protuber- 



antia occipita externa. The linea semicircular is superior 



and inferior strongly marked : linea suprema very faint. 



We find on either side, however, and especially strong on the 



left, a deep abrupt break between the fades muscularis and 



the fades laevis, which in its lower part follows the direction 



of the linea superior, then makes a deep bend toward the 



mesial line, and ends parallel to the linea suprema, right 



underneath it. In this way is formed on either side a long 



