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to the later part of the Stone period. In the words of Professor 
AYilson, it " is square and compact in form, broad and short, but 
well balanced, and with a good frontal development. The supra- 
ciliaries are moderately elevated." 
Nether Urquhart (Fifeshire}. — Fig. 8. — This is one of the 
Jcumhecephalic or boat-shaped skulls which were found in a cairn in 
Fifeshire in 1835. It is supposed to belong to the early part of 
the Stone period. This period might be called the protolithic (from 
Fig. 8. — Human skull from Nether Urquhart (scale \ linear). 
TrpwTo?, first, and XWo?, stone). The long, narrow and shelving occiput, 
the retrocedent frontals, and the prominent supraciliaries, indicate 
the similarity of this skull to that from Sennen, to which I have 
already alluded. 
The researches of Professor Wilson lead him to the result that the 
kumbecephalic (dolichocephalic) races in Great Britain antedated 
the brachycephalic races in time; those of Professor Xilsson, that the 
brachycephalic men in Scandinavia flourished before the dolicho- 
cephalic races. 
Flymoiith. — Pig. 9. — In this small portion of a cranium, "found 
in a limestone quarry at Plymouth, at a depth of about six feet 
Fig. 9. — Human skull from Plymouth (scale k linear). 
below the present turf," the retrocedence of the forehead is very 
remarkable. The supraorbital ridges project but slightly, and are 
discontinuous over the nasal bone. The fractured condition of the 
