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114 review the special features of the cranium and lower jaw. In Mr Newton's carefully prepared description of this skeleton there is not the slightest suspicion of special pleading, so that we may unreservedly accept his measurements of the skull as the most accurate that could be procured under the circumstances. Here are his words :—

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FIG. 24. Galley Hill Skull, side view (½). (After E. T. Newton.)

"The most striking features of this skull (Fig. 24) are its extreme length (205 mm.) in proportion to its width (about 130 mm.?), the complete obliteration of the coronal, sagittal, and lambdoidal sutures, both internally and externally, and the prominence of the superciliary ridges. The extreme narrowness of the cranium is best seen when viewed from above ; but this peculiarity is somewhat exaggerated by the distortion which the skull has undergone, the right temporal bone, and the parts posterior to it, being pushed over towards the left side ; and besides this, parts of the left side are wanting. The greatest width of the skull is low down near the mastoid region, but its imperfections prevent the exact width from being measured.

"The walls of the cranium are in most parts very thick, the middle of each frontal measuring as much as 12 mm. The superciliary ridges are very strongly developed, especially at their inner part, although now in a denuded condition ;