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WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, February 7, 1862. 



Sir Henry Holland, Bart. M.D. D.C.L. F.R.S. Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Professor T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. 

 On Fossil Remains of Man. 



The purpose of the discourse was to give an explanation of the interest 

 attaching to two casts upon the table — the one that of a skull, dis- 

 covered and described by Professor Schmerling, from the Cave of 

 Engis, in Belgium ; the other, discovered by Dr. Fuhlrott and de- 

 scribed by Professor SchaafFhausen, from a cave in the Neanderthal, 

 near Diisseldorf — the former being the oldest skull whose age is 

 geologically definable, the latter the most aberrant and degraded of 

 human skulls. 



The nature and extent of the cranial modifications exhibited by 

 the man-like apes and by man were discussed ; and their modifications 

 were shown to depend upon variations in the capacity and in the form 

 of the cranium, in the greater or less development of its ridges, and 

 in the size and form of the face. In respect of such differences, skulls 

 have been called dolichocephalic and brachycephalic, orthognathous 

 and prognathous, &c. 



Neither orthognathism or prognathism are necessarily correlated 

 with brachycephaly or dolichocephaly. But the most extreme pro- 

 gnathism is accompanied by a dolichocephalic cranium, while perfect 

 orthognathism may occur with extreme brachycephalism. 



The known varieties of the skull have a certain geographical 



