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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