REPORT ON TWO SKULLS 
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In the face the cheek-bones are broad and prominent, 
the orbits high but square, the nose platyrrhine and prob- 
ably concave ; and there is slight alveolar prognathism. 
The breadth index is mesatikephalic, but if reckoned 
by the ophryal length, as Flower would have done, it 
would be brachykephalic ; and indeed, its general contour 
and aspect seem to me those of a man of the bronze race, 
or at least of that type, I have not seen any of the bones 
said to have been found with this skull, nor can I give any 
opinion of the age of the silt or gravel-bed in which it 
was found. 
Though the external measurements of this skull are 
not remarkably small, its internal capacity is so, owing 
to the unusual thickness and weight of the cranial bones. 
The computed capacity is certainly greater than the true 
one by every plan of estimation. 
Thus Welcker’s Table D would give 1,268 c.c. ; 
Pearson and Lee, 1,266 ; Beddoe, 1,264 ; Pelletier, 
1,220 ; Welcker’s Table C, 1,216 ; Manouvrier, 1,197. 
The last certainly comes nearest the truth. But by 
actual gauging, with peas, on Welcker’s plan, I got only 
1,002, figures near the border of imbecility. I am by no 
means an expert gauger, and the truth may probably be 
a little larger than this, but I should guess it at less than 
1 , 100 . 
In the case of the Avonmouth skull there is little evi- 
dence as to the age of the owner ; but as the sagittal and 
sphenoidal sutures are obliterated, I should think he or 
she was of considerable age. The sex is doubtful — I 
should say feminine, chiefly on the ground of the extreme 
thinness of the bones, and the almost complete absence 
of apparent muscular attachments. The glabella and 
brow-ridges are, however, rather prominent, and the size 
and capacity are rather large for a woman. The smooth 
almost spherical form, and the flatness of the foraminal 
