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out, and the surface of contact, as well as that opposite 
to it, to (‘xpand in the direction of the plane of aj)posi- 
tion. It has a tendency to assume a discoidal form. The 
dilatation at the sides of the calvarium in the interparietal 
and intertemporal re^ii,ions, or at right angles to the flattening 
force, may be regarded in some' measure in the light of 
the Goinpeusatory development of ViRCHOW, among syno- 
stotic skulls. 
This parieto-occii)ital flattening, the accompaniments 
and mechanism of which 1 have been so tedious in de- 
scrilnng, is very a])t to complicate the true form of the 
skulls of the ancient Britons, for the typical form among 
these crania, 1 have shown is brachy-cephalic. I mean by 
typical form, in this place, not the universal, but the pre- 
valent and most characterictic form. 
And here i would observe that this pa rieto-oeeipital flat- 
tening, — such are the accidents and caprices of nursing, — 
is occasionally met with among many races of people who 
are not known to adopt any such custom as that connected 
with the cradle-board. Among the ancient Britons it is 
so common as to induce the opinion that the cradle-board 
was in use. Among other races and tribes it occurs occa- 
sionally, as it were sporadically. 1 will mention some 
instances of this and regret that i cannot exhil)it the spe- 
cimens themselves. The al)origines of the fine Island of 
New Caledonia and those of the surrounding islands: the 
Isle of Pines, the Isle of Yengen, the Loyalty Islands, 
I'anna, Fate or Samhvich Island (not the Sandwich Is- 
lands, which are totaly distinct), and I believe others of 
the New' Hebrides, are especially distinguished for their 
long, narrow and tall skulls. They appear to have a 
])aramount right to that slender dolicho-ce])halic chracter- 
