not equally satisfactory with that derived from a comparison of the _pelvis_, deserve serious attention. The whole thorax is shorter in the female, larger above as far as the fourth rib, narrower below; more moveable, less conical; more convex in front; more distant from the _pelvis_, the interval between the last rib, and the _os innominatum_ being greater; less prominent anteriorly, so that when the trunk is supine, the _symphysis pubis_ is the highest point in the female, whereas in the male subject, the thorax is the most elevated; the sternum is also shorter in the female, ending at the plane of the fourth rib, while it reaches to the plane of the fifth in the male; the clavicles are likewise less strongly curved, so that the _scapulæ_ are thrown backwards; the female _scapulæ_ are, moreover, smaller, slenderer, flatter, and have acuter angles than those of the male. We have been thus minute in our endeavour to establish rules for discriminating between the male and female skeleton, because it has been a question of judicial inquiry. The supposed difficulty of ascertaining the sex of a skeleton constituted a principal feature in the celebrated defence of _Eugene Aram_ for the murder of _Daniel Clarke_, and which, on account of its extreme ingenuity, has been introduced at length in our _Appendix_, p. 311. In examining detached and isolated portions of the skeleton, we must take care not to mistake natural fissures and _foramina_ for the effects of violence; we have already observed that the _sagittal suture_ has been pronounced to be a fracture. But the most extraordinary illustration of such an error that can be adduced, is that presented to us in the history of a case that occurred at Exeter, and which the author of this work is enabled to present in an authentic form through the kind assistance of his friend, _Wm. Tucker, Esq. of Coryton, Devonshire_, a gentleman, who has been too long known, and too universally respected, as an active and upright magistrate, to render any panegyric necessary on the present occasion. THE CASE OF THOMAS BOWERMAN. DEVONSHIRE.——_At the Devon Assizes in March, 1800, a Bill was preferred before the Grand Jury against_ Thomas Bowerman, _for the Murder of_ Mary Gollop, _a Bastard Child of_ Sarah _his Wife, by another man, previous to her marriage, at the parish of Uffculme, in the said County_. _Mary Gollop_ lived with her mother, the wife of _Thomas Bowerman_, in _Bowerman’s_ house, at Uffculme, and had been often noticed on account of the ill treatment she was known to experience from _Thomas Bowerman_. About Michaelmas, 1797, being then about fourteen years of age, she was reported to have died suddenly in her father’s house, and she was accordingly buried on the first day of October, 1797, in the church-yard of Uffculme.