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DESCRIPTIONS OP CEANIA.
Horizontal circumference
Longitudinal diameter
Frontal Region.—Length
Breadth
Height
Parietal Region.—Length
Breadth
Height
A .
2 2 - 2
7'9
5-6
5 1
4-8
5'5
5-8
4-7
B.
22-2
7-7
5-4
4-9
4-7
5-2
5-8
4-8
C.
21-9 in.
7-7 „
5-5 „
5-1 „
6- „
5-5 „
5-9 „
5- ..
A .
Occipital Region.—Length 4-7
Breadth 5-4
Height 4-3
Intermastoid arch . 15-3
Internal capacity-
Pace.—Length .
Breadth .
Femur.—Length
4-7
5-2
18
B.
5-
5-6
4-4
15-5
85
5-
5-5
19
C.
4-7 in.
5- „
4-6 „
15-5 „
81 oz.
5' in.
5-2 „
17Î „
The skull IS that of a man of 40 or 50 years of age : it is remarkably perfect and very hard
and heavy, weighing, with the lower jaw, 29i oz. Av. The other skulls from the same cemetery
are of a briUiant whiteness, derived from the chatt in which they were interred; the weight of
the larger crania varies from 20 to 25 oz. That we are describing is of a drab stone-colour,
which It perhaps owes to some means taken to preserve the head after decapitation It is the
most capacious skull of the series, being gauged by 90^ oz. of sand which represents a brain of
the unusual weight of 61 oz. t The skull is moderately broad, and weU arched at the summit
The forehead, fuU and square, rises in a gradual sweU to the parietal region, which is wide and
expanded at the tubers, and slopes away to a fuU and prominent occiput, the ridges of which are
strongly marked. The external auditory openings are in the centre of the craniiim and
nearly correspond with a vertical line drawn from the junction of the coronal and sagittal
sutures. The glabeUa is fuU, and the supraorbital ridges moderately prominent over the inner
halves of the orbits. The nasal bones are broad, well arched, and have an aquiline tendency
The malars axe prominent and fuU. The zygomatic arches terminate in strongly marked ridges
above the mastoids. The superior maxiUaries are orthognathic, but somewhat short. The lower
jaw has a broad prominent chin; its base has the maximum thickness of half an inch- the
ascending rami are broad and nearly at right angles with the body of the bone. The teeth are
of average size, the crowns moderately eroded, the dentine in nearly all sUghtly exposed
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riffwe of White Horse, at Uffim/ion, Berkshire.
* In four instances, out of 105 males (hospital patients), tabulated
b j Dr. Peacock, the brain weighed from 61 to C2| oz.;
the average weight heing about 50 02. The brain of Cuvier
weighed about 6.5 oz. ; that of Dr. Abercrombie, 63 oz. Av.
t Five of the larger male skulls hold from 80 to 86 oz. of
51.
(J. T.)
sand, the last being the capacity of the fine cranium of a boy
of about 12 (No. 3). The capacity of that figured in the plate is
about as large as any we have gauged. The fine Roman skull of
Theodorianus (PI. 8. p. 4) contained 8 6 | oz.; the large Anglo-
Saxon skull from Linton Heath (PI. 10. p. .'>), 90f oz.
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