colleague - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"It was all very confused. Sir Charles had evidently stood there for five or ten minutes."

"How do you know that?"

"Because the ash had twice dropped from his cigar."

"Excellent! This is a colleague, Watson, after our own heart.

colleague - Google Search

col·league/ˈkälēg/

Noun: A person with whom one works, esp. in a profession or business.

ancient padlock - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"You interest me exceedingly. Another point. Was the wicketgate closed?"

"Closed and padlocked."

ancient padlock - Google Search

Forecast: Cloudy, damp & raw - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"What sort of night was it?'

"Damp and raw."

"But not actually raining?"

"No."

raw - definition of raw by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

10.	raw - unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" cutting, bleak cold - having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"

Capital Weather Gang - Forecast: Cloudy, damp & raw Thanksgiving week

Casein - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. He did not observe any. But I did -- some little distance off, but fresh and clear."

"Footprints?"

"Footprints. "

"A man's or a woman's?"

Image by Morydd via FlickrDr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered:

"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"

Side note in our book says, Today, police photograph footprints and often auto tracks, or jimmy marks.  They also make casts using plaster, casein, or other materials.  

Image via WikipediaWe
 looked up casein, because we thought it was just a milk protein.

Polymer technology dictionary - Google Books

Chimerical - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"It was at my advice that Sir Charles was about to go to London. His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived, however chimerical the cause of it might be, was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.

chi·mer·i·cal

   [ki-mer-i-kuhl, -meer-, kahy-]  Show IPA

–adjective

1.

unreal; imaginary; visionary: a chimerical terrestrial paradise.

2.

wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic: a chimerical plan.

Chimerical | Define Chimerical at Dictionary.com: "chimerical"

Bushmen - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa, and many a charming evening we have spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot.

Bushmen Village, Namibia, 2005

Bushmen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hottentots - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

Image via Wikipedia
He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa, and many a charming evening we have spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot.

"common molefe (Male)"

Hottentots and Southern Africa

Pogonip Ice fog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ice fog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pogonip is ice fog. Once my uncle found the word "pogonip" 3 times in a row playing boggle with my Grandma Dalley. Then he confessed that he had taped the dice into the board to spell pogonip! What a funny family.

define:scion - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

define:scion - Google Search: "Definitions of scion on the Web:

a descendent or heir; 'a scion of royal stock'
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn"

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Literature.org - The Online Literature Library

Literature.org - The Online Literature Library

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carouse - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"When they had brought her to the Hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber, while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long carouse, as was their nightly custom. Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terrible oaths which came up to her from below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them. "

To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering.

carouse - Wiktionary

Yeoman - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

" It chanced that this Hugo came to love (if, indeed, so dark a passion may be known under so bright a name) the daughter of a yeoman who held lands near the Baskerville estate. But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name. "

A Yeoman is a prosperous farmer or landowner.

Yeoman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Great Rebellion - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

" "Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man. "

The great rebellion is also called the English Civil War. Supporters of Parliament, led by oliver Cromwell, succeeded in removing King Charles 1 from the throne.

1649: 30 January: Execution of Charles I by the English Parliament

"Charles I, King of England, from Three Angles" by Anthony van Dyck

Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Long s - - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"You will observe, Watson, the alternative use of the long s and the short. It is one of several indications which enabled me to fix the date."

An italicized long s used in the word "Congress" in the United States Bill of Rights.

Long s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alphonse Bertillon - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" asked Holmes with some asperity.

"To the man of precisely scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "

Alphonse Bertillon was a researcher who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements. He used special instruments to measure head, ears, feet, fingers, and so on. Like fingerprints, there are no tow sets of measurements exactly alike.

Alphonse Bertillon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alphonse Bertillon
Image via Wikipedia
Born	April 24, 1853 Paris, France
Died	February 13, 1914 (aged 60) Münsterlingen, Switzerland
Occupation	law enforcement officer and biometrics researcher

asperity - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" asked Holmes with some asperity."

 Roughness or harshness

asperity - definition of asperity by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.: "asperity"

Supraorbital foramen - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development."

Supraorbital foramen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bone: Supraorbital foramen
The skull from the front. ("Supraorbital foramen" is top caption for right side white-box.)

    These babies have a large supra-orbital development.

  This woman has a large upra-orbital development.

dolichocephalic skull - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

A hundred years apart | Flickr - Photo Sharing!: "A hundred years apart

A hundred years apart

My father was not a man given to personal revelation. Indeed, vast areas of his life have always been a closed book to me. Naturally this had the effect of arousing my curiosity. Let's be honest; nobody likes to be excluded from a secret. Consequently, as a small boy I was always rummaging in the cupboards and drawers of my parents' bedroom, looking for clues, or "prying into his affairs" as my father would doubtlessly have regarded it ...with justice, I suppose. Curiosity is natural in childhood and I think most children go through a phase ("What's this thing, Mummy") of investigating parental belongings. But in my case, because this natural propensity was forbidden, it became negativised and furtive. So, when I see this photograph, there is always a little guilty twinge somewhere that tells me I ought not to be looking at it. I discovered it in the bottom of a suitcase which my father kept beneath his side of the parental bed.
There was no doubting for an instant who this was, for, in the heavy countenance and dolichocephalic skull

dolichocephalic skull - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

Modern Humans, Neanderthals May Have Interbred - Page 2 - Skadi Forum: "Aboriginal skull:



3. About the issue of dolichocephaly and brain size... Yes, dolichocephalic skulls do seem to be a desirable trait. And dolichocephaly usually goes hand in hand with examples of possibly pure blond-haired blue-eyed Scandinavians etc... But for example, what do you have to say about dolichocephaly that is also found in Sub-Saharan Africans?"

Dolichocephalic Skull - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development."


Cephalic index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Dolichocephalic animals


Dolichocephalic Borzoi
A dolichocephalic skull is relatively long skull (typically with the breadth less than 80% or 75% of the length).
List of dolicocephalic canines:
Afghan Hound
Azawakh
Bedlington Terrier
Borzoi
Chart Polski
Cirneco dell'Etna
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Dachshund
Galgo Español
Greyhound
Hortaya Borzaya
Ibizan Hound
Irish Wolfhound
Italian Greyhound
Pharaoh Hound
Saluki
Scottish Deerhound
Silken Windhound
Sloughi
Whippet
Great Dane
Siberian Husky
Grey wolf"

Frayed Trousers - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

"He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed."

http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.95516491.jpg

frockcoat - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

mens_wool_flannel_frockcoat.jpg (262×412)

"He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed."

http://www.baronboutique.com/mens_suit/flannel/mens_wool_flannel_frockcoat.jpg

Penang lawyer - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

Penang lawyer - Wiktionary:

"It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a 'Penang lawyer.' -The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."

The Ocular Helmsman: 

Dr. James Mortimer owned a Penang lawyer with a "head;" therefore it is likely he owned one with a knob head like the one pictured above.

http://www.jadedcompass.com/ocular_helmsman/attire/canes.html

The Royal College of Surgeons of England Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

Image via WikipediaWelcome — The Royal College of Surgeons of England http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/

"To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884."

Parietal Fissure - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

International Journal of Morphology - Relación del Foramen Parietal y la Complejidad de la Sutura Sagital Humana

"You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? "

I think from what I could find that the surgeon wanted to run his finger over the top of Sherlock Holmes' head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_bone