Parker and Bettany's “Morphology of the Skull”

Abstract

IN the minds of most of those who have paid no special attention to the subject the skull is regarded as a bony case formed to contain the brain, together with the face. There is also a constancy in the number and position of these bones which lead to the apparently necessary conclusion that occipital, sphenoid, parietal, and other elements are fundamental cranial structures; so that an exhaustive study of their relationships and variations might be thought entirely to cover the subject of skull structure.

The Morphology of the Skull.

By W. K. Parker G. T. Bettany (London: Macmillan and Co., 1877.)