N. 1869. Sm. 8vo. London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.

Appended to the Religio Medici, and followed by the Letter to a Friend. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by J. W. Willis Bund. The text is stated in the Introduction to be taken from E (1686). Fourteenth Edition. "Some of Browne's notes to that edition have been omitted, and most of the references, as they refer to books which are not likely to be met with by the general reader." (British Museum.)

O. 1886. Sm. 8vo. London, Walter Scott.

Appended to the Religio Medici, and followed by the essay On Dreams, the Letter to a Friend, and Christian Morals. With an Introduction by J. A. Symonds. Shortly after publication there was issued on a small piece of coloured paper a list of Errata, which, however, relates only to the Introduction. This volume is one of the "Camelot Classics." Fifteenth Edition. (British Museum.)

P. 1890. Evo. London, Reeves and Turner.

Appended to Aubrey's "Miscellanies," pp. 223-285. Called the "tenth" edition, but more properly the sixteenth. (British Museum.)

Q. 1892. 32mo. London, David Stott.

Included in the Religio Medici and Other Essays, edited by D. Lloyd Roberts, M.D., F.R.C.P. Contains a Biographical Introduction by the Editor. The text is there said to be "reprinted from the edition of 1658 (the first), with the exception of a few typographical corrections, amended in the subsequent edition." Seventeenth Edition. (British Museum.)

R. 1893. 8vo. London, Whittingham.

Contains also the Brampton Urns; edited by Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.S.A. An elegant reprint of A, incorporating the Errata etc. in C, with an Introduction and Notes by the Editor. Eighteenth Edition. (British Museum.)

S. 1894. 8vo. Canterbury, G. Moreton.

Republished with the Religio Medici, Letter to a Friend, and Christian Morals, edited, with an Illustrated Memoir" of Sir T. B., by G. B. M. A reprint of A, incorporating the Errata in C. Nineteenth Edition.

The GARDEN OF CYRUS is contained (either wholly or in part), in all the editions of the Urn Burial except those called G, H, J, N, O, P, Q, R and S.

APPENDIX No. II.

THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE SKULL OF

SIR THOMAS BROWNE.

BY CHARLES WILLIAMS, F.R.C.S.E., NORWICH.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE died on Oct. 19, 1682, and was buried in the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich. In 1840 his skull was "knaved out of its grave" by the sexton. It appears that some workmen who were employed in making a grave for the incumbent's wife accidentally broke into the vault which contained the coffin of Sir Thomas Browne. In some unexplained way they fractured the lid of the coffin, and thereby exposed the skeleton. The sexton did not consider it an act of sacrilege to take possession of the skull and to offer it for sale. Eventually the late Dr. Edward Lubbock became its possessor, and in 1845 the skull was deposited by him in the pathological museum of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, where it is still to be seen. It has recently been claimed by the vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, but unsuccessfully.

The measurements of the skull are expressed in English inches and tenths, and have recently been taken by means of Flower's craniometer, according to the plan suggested

and carried out so extensively by the late Dr. Barnard
Davis, the possessor of 1,800 human skulls, recently
deposited in the Museum of the Royal College of Sur-
geons of England, and to whom, as well as to Dr.
Thurnham, the science of anthropology is so deeply
indebted for the production of that great work, Crania
Britannica. The skull may be placed in the dolicho-
cephalic class. It is quite edentulous, but is in a state
of excellent preservation. The forehead is remarkably
low and depressed; the head is unusually long, the back
part exhibiting a singular appearance of depth and capa-
ciousness. The following are the measurements:-Internal
capacity, in ounces avoirdupois of dry sand, 69 ounces.
Circumference round the forehead about an inch above
the naso-frontal suture and over the most prominent part
of the occiput, 21.5 in. Fronto-occipital arch, from the
fronto-nasal suture along the centre of the calvarium to
the posterior edge of the foramen magnum, 15 in.—
(a) length of the frontal portion, 5 in.; (6) length of the
parietal portion, 5 in.; (c) length of the occipital portion,
5 in. Intermastoid arch, from the tip of one mastoid
process across the vertex to the tip of the other, 14.5 in.
Longitudinal diameter, or length from the glabella to the
most prominent point of the occiput, the glabella being
regarded as about an inch above the naso-frontal suture,
7.7 in.
Transverse diameter, or greatest breadth-inter-
parietal, 5-8 in.; intertemporal, 5-4 in.-(a) frontal breadth
at the most divergent points of the bone in the coronal
suture, 5 in.; (b) parietal breadth at the protuberances,
5.6 in.; (c) occipital breadth at the junction of the occi-
pital with the posterior inferior angles of the parietals,
4.8 in. Height from the plane of the foramen magnum at
its centre to that of the vertex, 5.1 in.; (a) frontal height,

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5.5 in.; (b) parietal height, 5 in.; (c) occipital height, 4.8 in.; taken from the axis of the auditory foramina these measurements are respectively 4.3 in., 4 in., and 4-5 in. From one auditory foramen to the other-(a) over the most prominent part of the frontal bone, 11 in.; (b) over the parietal bones, 12 in.; (c) over the occipital bone, 13 in. Length of the face from the nasal suture to the tip of the chin, an allowance of 0.6 in. being made for the absent teeth and absorption of alveolar ridges, 4.5 in. Breadth of the face from the most prominent point of one zygomatic arch to that of the other, 5.2 in.; from the external border of one orbital ridge to that of the other, 4.2 in. Width of the lower jaw at the angles, 4 in. Proportion of the greatest breadth to the length (the latter taken as 100), 0.72. Proportion of the height to the length, 0.66. The above measurements were taken at the request of the late Dr. W. A. Greenhill of Hastings, who, at the time of his death in September, 1894, was engaged in preparing for the press a new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial. It was his wish "to make the account more complete by giving the measurements of that great man's skull." Is it not strange that one who meditated so deeply on the transitory duration of monuments and the great mutations of the world should have exemplified in his own relic his words to Thomas Le Gros? "But who knows the fate of his bones, or how often he is to be buried? Who hath the oracle of his ashes, or whither they are to be scattered?"