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On Some Fossil Remains of Man by Thomas Henry Huxley
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process of the frontal over the vertex
to the superior semicircular lines of the
occipital measures.............................303 (300) = 12.0".
Circumference over the orbital ridges and
the superior semicircular lines of the
occipital......................................590 (590) = 23.37" or 23".
Width of the frontal from the middle of
the temporal line on one side to the
same point on the opposite.....................104 (114) = 4.1"--4.5".
Length of the frontal from the nasal.
process to the coronal suture..................133 (125) = 5.25"--5".
Extreme width of the frontal sinuses...........25 (23) = 1.0"--0.9".
Vertical height above a line joining the
deepest notches in the squamous border
of the parietals...............................70 = 2.75".
Width of hinder part of skull from one
parietal protuberance to the other.............138 (150) = 5.4"--5.9"
Distance from the upper angle of the
occipital to the superior semicircular
lines..........................................51 (60) = 1.9"--2.4".
Thickness of the bone at the parietal
protuberance...................................8.
--at the angle of the occipital................9.
--at the superior semicircular line of
the occipital..................................10 = 0.3"

"Besides the cranium, the following bones have been secured:--

"1. Both thigh-bones, perfect. These, like the skull, and all the
other bones, are characterized by their unusual thickness, and the
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