 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1875
...No. 1. — The plan of this table is taken from Foster's work on the prehistoric races of the Uuited States, and the letters at the heads of the columns...protuberance from the posterior margin of the foramen magnum ami the ratio of this distance to the long diameter of the skull. This is au important characteristic... | |
 | Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences - 1876
...the United States, and the letters at the heads of the columns refer to the same measurements. Pour other columns are, however, added, the first giving...protuberance from the posterior margin of the foramen magnum and the ratio of this distance to the long diameter of the skull. This is an important characteristic... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1875
...seven hundred years, showed marked alteration, which he describes as follows : Very brittle, ETHNOLOGY. of a purplish color ; remarkable both for the absence...columns give the distance of the occipital protuberance ffom the posterior margin of the foramen magnum and the ratio of this distance to the long diameter... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1875
...fresh ones yielded only 30 per cent. of gelatin, showing only a slight alteration. On the other band, bones exhumed from the church-yard of Ste. Genevieve,...protuberance from the posterior margin of the foramen magnum and the ratio of this distance to the long diameter of the skull. This is an important characteristic... | |
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