THE GEOLOGIST. 
region is low, but not markedly retrocedent. An even curve is continued 
backwards to immediately behind the coronal suture, when the same 
*' post-coronal " depression is visible, as in the Mewslade and East- 
ham skulls. The points of attachment of the temporal muscle are scarcely 
visible. The coronal suture is, however, complex at the spot \Ahere it 
crosses the temporal attachments, — a character on which Messrs. Thurnam 
and Davis have laid stress in British skulls. The parietal tubers are mo- 
derately prominent. The superciliary ridges are not undul}^ developed, 
and the fractured condition of the skull warrants us in affirming that the 
frontal sinuses were small. As far as measurement can be made, the 
length from the glabella to the apex of the lambdoidal suture is 7 inches ; 
the breadth at the parietal tubers, 5^ inches ; at the coronal suture, 4| 
inches ; above the orbits, 3| inches. A fragment of right occipital condyle 
probably belonged to the same young individual ; a fragment of the mas- 
toid bone appertained to an elder person. 
The fragment marked B is a most striking relic of antiquity. It is the 
frontal bone, with much of the right parietal attached: the jDieces of which 
I have succeeded in joining together. The close similarity of it to the 
fragmentary skull from Plymouth, which Professor Busk has described, 
and I have figured from his plate (' Geologist,' vol. v. p. 212), must strike 
every observer. Unlike, however, the Plymouth skull, the superciliary 
ridges are markedly conspicuous. The retrocession of the forehead is very 
peculiar, and strongly resembles that in the skulls from Sennen and Musk- 
ham. Slight traces of the frontal suture can be seen. The frontal sinuses 
are present, though small. JN^o traces of the post-coronal depression are 
visible. It is much to be regretted that no other pieces have been pre- 
served of this curious skull. Many fragments, chiefly of parietal bones, 
were also obtained ; but their condition precludes an opinion as to their 
nature. The vertebrse and bones of the extremities did not offer any cha- 
racters calling for especial notice. 
I believe that the fragment marked B was the skidl which Mr. J. El- 
liott, the careful explorer of the cave, stated* "may have been that of one 
of the principal tenants of the cave, and which probably devoured the 
others." This evidence of " a tolerably large animal" rather appears to 
be that of a human being with forehead " villanously low," and whose 
cranial characters were so striking as almost to excuse the error into which 
Mr. Elliott was unintentionally led. 
The skull from Leicester is in good condition, and retains much of 
its animal matter. It exhibits the even oval contour characteristic of 
the existing type of Englishmen. By the smallness of the mastoid pro- 
cesses, the slenderness of the zygomata and the slight degree in which 
the surface is pitted with muscular depressions, I conjecture it to have 
belonged to a female, and by the position of the wisdom teeth {m 3) in the 
alveoli, the individual probably did not exceed eighteen years of age. The 
following is a table of the principal admeasurements : — 
Inches. 
Longitudinal diameter ..... 7 
Parietal diameter . . . . . . 5 
Frontal diameter 54 
Vertical diameter ... . . -41 
Intermastoid arch . - . . . . 13i 
Intermastoid dine ...... 3i 
Occipito-frontal arch ...... 14 
Horizontal periphery . . . . . . 19i 
* ' (rcolo.sist,' vol. V. p. 3f). 
