found to be incorrigible and too bad for that settlement 
— criminals of the deepest dye — and this .imlividiial seems 
to have been preeminently vicious, for his crimes in Norfolk 
Island led to his condemnation to the scaffold. The cra- 
nium is that of a man of probably about 40 years of age, 
and ])resents a complete ossification of the sagittal and of 
the greater part of the lambdoidal sutures, the coronal 
suture being partially obliterated at the sides and is only 
faintly traceable in all the middle portion. The cranium 
has by these premature synostoses of its bones become 
cylindro-cephalic , rather dolicho-cephalic, and decidedly 
micro-cephalic. Its internal capacity is reduced to 50 
ounces of sand, which is equal to 71,4 cubic inches. A 
lower capacity than the mean of any race in ^lortoifs 
great table, where the mean internal cai)acity of the skulls 
of Australians, including both females and males, is 75 
cubic inches. 
In this case of synostosis, concurrent with striking 
moral depravity, there was scarcely any com])ensatory de- 
velopement of the cranium, only a slight longitudinal one, 
and the brain must have been limited in its growth, if not 
actually compressed. I have other skulls which tend to 
contirm the view, that the premature obliteration of the 
sutures and consequent contraction of the cranial cavity, 
has the effect of limiting the intellectual poAvcrs, and 
especially of })erverting the moral feelings. In the skull 
of ’Teron”, a Spaniard, of not more than 50 years of age. 
which was formerly in the museum of the celebrated 
anatomist, Joshua IIkookes, there is a })retty general syno- 
stosis of the bones, as well as some hyperostosis, and, 
Avithout looking small, it may be regarded as someAvhat 
micro-cephalic. ’Teron”, Avho had lost his right arm, during 
