THE NEANDERTHAL MAN. 



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capacity of the skull in Europeans is 92.3 cubic inches; in Ameri- 

 cans 87.5; in Asiatics 87.1; and in Australians only 81.9 cubic 

 inches. Professor Broca found that the nineteenth century skulls 

 from graves in Paris were larger than those from vaults of the 

 twelfth century, in the proportion of 1484 to 1426; and that the in- 

 creased size, as ascertained by measurements, was exclusively in the 

 frontal part of the skull the seat of the intellectual faculties. 



FOSSIL RELICS OF THE NEANDERTHAL MAN IN THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM 



AT BONN. 

 ( WeUall und Menschheit, II, 3 ) 



Prichard is persuaded that the present inhabitants of Britain have 

 'much more capacious brain-cases' than the ancient inhabitants. 

 Nevertheless, it must be admitted, that some skulls of very high 

 antiquity, such as the famous one of Neanderthal, are well devel- 

 oped and capacious." 



Huxley in Man*s Place in Nature says . 

 " Under whatever aspect we view this cranium, whether we 



