erior 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 great
development of all the elevations and depressions for the attachment
of muscles. In the Anatomical Museum at Bonn, under the designation of
'Giant's-bones,' are some recent thigh-bones, with which in thickness
the foregoing pretty nearly correspond, although they are shorter.
[First value =] Giant's bones, [Second value =] Fossil bones in mm.
Length...542 = 21.4"...438 = 17.4".
Diameter of head of femur...54 = 2.14"...53 = 2.0".
Diameter of lower articular end, from one condyle to the other...89 =
3.5"...87 = 3.4".
Diameter of femur in the middle...33 = 1.2"...30 = 1.1".
"2. A perfect right humerus, whose size shows that it belongs to the
thigh-bones.
mm.
Length...312 = 12.3".
Thickness in the middle...26 = 1.0".
Diameter of head...49 = 1.9".
"Also a perfect right radius of corresponding dimensions, and the
upper-third of a right ulna corresponding to the humerus and radius.
"3. A left humerus of which the upper-third is wanting, and which is
so much slenderer than the right as apparently to belong to a distinct
individual; a left 'ulna', which, though complete, is pathologically
deformed, the coronoid process being so much enlarged by bony
growth, that flexure of the elbow beyond a right angle must have been
impossible; the anterior fo
|