semicircular ridges of the occipital. Estimated in dried millet-seed,
the contents equalled 31 ounces, Prussian Apothecaries' weight. The
semicircular line indicating the upper boundary of the attachment of
the temporal muscle, though not very strongly marked, ascends
nevertheless to more than half the height of the parietal bone. On the
right superciliary ridge is observable an oblique furrow or depression,
indicative of an injury received during life.*

[footnote] *This, Mr. Busk has pointed out, is probably
the notch for the frontal nerve. The coronal and sagittal
sutures are on the exterior nearly closed, and on the
inside so completely ossified as to have left no traces
whatever, whilst the lambdoidal remains quite open. The
depressions for the Pacchionian glands are deep and
numerous; and there is an unusually deep vascular groove
immediately behind the coronal suture, which, as it
terminates in the foramen, no doubt transmitted a 'vena
emissaria'. The course of the frontal suture is indicated
externally by a slight ridge; and where it joins the
coronal, this ridge rises into a small protuberance. The
course of the sagittal suture is grooved, and above the
angle of the occipital bone the parietals are depressed.

mm.*

[footnote] *The numbers in brackets are those which I should
assign to the different measures, as taken from the plaster
cast.--G. B.

The length of the skull from the nasal