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FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN.

and there is an unusually deep vascular groove immediately behind the coronal suture, which, as it terminates in a 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.

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The length of the skull from the nasal process of the frontal over the vertex to the superior semicircular lines of the occipital measures303(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 opposite104(114) = 4·1"—4·5"
Length of the frontal from the nasal process to the coronal suture133(125) = 5·25"—5".
Extreme width of the frontal sinuses25 (23) = 1·0"—0·9"
Vertical height above a line joining the deepest notches in the squamous border of the parietals70 = 2·75."
Width of hinder part of skull from one parietal protuberance to the other138(150) = 5·4"—5·9"
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