THE NEANDERTHAL MAN. 



IN the year 1857 a human skeleton was discovered in a 

 limestone cave (commonly called the "little Feld- 

 hofner Grotto ") in the Neanderthal near Dornap, between 

 Diisseldorf and Elberfeld. And how hot were the contro- 

 versies about the character of the bones as well as the 

 formation of the skull ! Virchow, so liberal in politics 



LATERAL VIEW OF THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 

 After Schwalbe. 



and reactionary in science, advised caution and declared 

 that these bones might be the remains of an imbecile and 

 degenerate individual. 



Professor Virchow claimed that no conclusion could 

 be drawn from one isolated instance ; but in the meantime 

 other skeletons and skulls of a similar type have been 

 discovered, which prove that the Neanderthal man was 



