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Show 50 DESCRIPTION OF SKULLS. The three skulls forming the more interesting part of the remains are designated by Nos. 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Skull Xo. 1.- Plates 23, 24, and 25, { Fig. 5.) This is almost perfect, with the exception of the right styloid process, which is missing, and the two condyles articulating with the atlas, which, accordiug to all appearance, were broken off quite recently. Viewed from above, the outline of the massive skull is somewhat heart- shaped, and but little irregular, the irregularity being chiefly due to the depression of the posterior portion of the left parietal bone. This depression extends also, but less marked, a short distance over the right parietal, inclosing a somewhat triangular space, and likewise over the occipital, down to the protuberance. Serration of sagittal suture coarse. A small Wormian bone in the coronal near the left temporal ridge. Parietal tubers very pronounced. In profile the considerable height of the skull is very striking, as is also the depression, if the left side be turned toward the observer. Occiput, from a plane laid horizontally through the tubera parietalia downward, straight, almost perpendicular, the central portion of the occipital only bulgiug out slightly. Temporal ridges pronounced; mastoid process heavy; meatus rather elongated. Upper portion of frontal, from the region of the tubera, receding; supra orbital arches moderately convex. Nasofrontal angle considerable, indicating aquiliue features; anterior nasal spiue prominent. There is a slight tendeucy to prognathism. A frontal view shows a moderately broad forehead; distance between the orbits rather considerable; left supra- orbital foramen exceedingly small; the right supraorbital arch shows 3foramina. Malars massive; incisive fossae deep; canine eminences considerable. Muscular insertions of the lower jaw invariably very prouounced, but the exterior oblique line comparatively weakly developed. Height of ramus 7. cm. l. Teeth normal, their crowns slightly woru down, especially those of the incisors, but in excellent state of preservation. In a base view the deformation shows almost as much as in profile. The. left mastoid process, being more obtuse than the right one, is pushed forward, and, in connection with this the foramen magnum is somewhat asymmetrical and distorted. Left posterior condyloid foramen wanting; the spot where it ought to be is, however, very thin; and, as in similar cases, the size of the existing foramen is greater tbau usual. The effect of distortion may be noticed along the entire left portion of the base, on which side the eruption of the last molar never took place, although the right one cut through. / Viewed from behind, the outline of the skull is hexagonal. Parietal* sloping considerably from the sagittal suture to the tuber*, from which they form au almost perpendicular line to the mastoid portious of the squamosals. Lower outline of occipital but slightly convex. The internal occipital protuberance is but faintly indicated, especially if compared with other muscular insertions, but the ridge is strongly marked. While the right depression for the insertiou of the rectus capitis posticus is deep and well developed, the opposite is but shallow. Before giving the conventional measurements it may be well to state that the indices of height and breadth were iutentionally omitted, as, on account of the deformation of the skull, they would be of little value. |