in THE ENGIS SKULL. 163 



indicate that the height of the man, to whom they be- 

 longed, exceeded five feet and a half. 



" As to the remains of the upper extremities, those 

 which are in my possession consist merely of a frag- 

 ment of an ulna and of a radius (Plate III, Figs. 5 

 and 6). 



" Figure 2, Plate IV, represents a metacarpal bone, 

 contained in the breccia, of which we have spoken; it 

 was found in the lower part above the cranium: add to 

 this some metacarpal bones, found at very different dis- 

 tances, half-a-dozen metatarsals, three phalanges of the 

 hand, and one of the foot. 



" This is a brief enumeration of the remains of human 

 bones collected in the cavern of Engis, which has pre- 

 served for us the remains of three individuals, surrounded 

 by those of the Elephant, of the Rhinoceros, and of Car- 

 nivora of species unknown in the present creation." 



From the cave of Engihoul, opposite that of 

 Engis, on the right bank of the Meuse, Schmerling 

 obtained the remains of three other individuals of 

 Man, among which were only two fragments of 

 parietal bones, but many bones of the extremities. 

 In one case, a broken fragment of an ulna was 

 soldered to a like fragment of a radius by stalag- 

 mite, a condition frequently observed among the 

 bones of the Cave Bear (Ursus spelceus), found in 

 the Belgian caverns. 



It was in the cavern of Engis that Professor 

 Schmerling found, incrusted with stalagmite and 

 joined to a stone, the pointed bone implement, 

 which he has figured in Fig. 7 of his Plate 

 XXXVI, and worked flints were found by him in 



