The skull-cap must be securely fastened in its normal position, so that no slipping can occur. If the body is not to be shipped any distance the posterior interlocking joint will usually hold it firmly in place if the scalp is drawn tightly together and closely stitched. When the body is to be moved some distance, the skull-cap must be more firmly fastened. This can be accomplished by drilling holes at the sides of the saw-cut and fastening the skull-cap to the cranium by means of copper wire, which must be tightly twisted and pressed flat against the bone. When this is done in the temporal region the wire is completely concealed by the temporal muscles when these are drawn up with the scalp, or if these have been cut away pads of cotton can be put in their place. The cranial fossæ and the skull-cap may be filled with plaster-of-Paris; while this is still soft a piece of wood may be pushed through into the foramen magnum and allowed to project high enough above the saw-cut to hold the skull-cap on, when it, filled with plaster, is put in position. With the setting of the plaster the skull-cap is firmly held. A little ingenuity will suffice to improvise various other methods of securing the skull-cap, by the use of bandages, metal pins, etc. After the employment of Harke’s method the halves of the skull must be brought together and securely fastened at the base or in the occipital region. After resection of the temporal bone for the examination of the auditory apparatus the defect must be filled in with cotton or other substance, and the lower jaw and external ear restored to their normal positions. After examination of the orbit and the removal of the posterior half of the eye-ball a wad of red- or black-stained cotton should be used to fill out the eye so that it will have the same degree of fullness that the other eye has. When the eye is enucleated a glass-eye may be substituted and the lids fastened together by fine stitches made on the conjunctival side. If it is desired to save the skull-cap an artificial skull-cap may be molded from a square piece of pulp-board of the thickness of 0.5 cm. in the case of the adult, somewhat thinner for children. The pasteboard is soaked in warm water for about fifteen minutes, and is then molded over the skull-cap. It is then cut parallel with the edges of the saw-cuts so that the edge of the board will extend about 1 to 1.5 centimetres over the edges of the skull-cap to overlap the bones below the saw-cut. The cranial cavity is then filled with plaster or cotton. The pasteboard is removed from the skull-cap before it becomes too dry for its lower edge to be adapted easily to the lower border of the saw-cut. Ridges or folds are trimmed off with the knife and the surface made smooth. It is then adjusted and firmly fastened in position by passing several turns of strong twine around the lower border over-lapping the cranial bones. The temporal muscles and the scalp-flaps are then