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severe criticism. At the mouth of a cave in the 

 commune of Spy:, in the Belgian province of 

 Namur, Messrs. Fraipont and Lohest discovered 

 two skeletons of the Neanderthal type; and the 

 elaborate account of their investigations which 

 they have published appears to me to leave little 

 room for doubt that the men of Spy fabricated 

 the pakeolithic implements, and were the contem- 

 poraries of the characteristic quaternary quadru- 

 peds, found with them. The anatomical charac- 

 ters of the skeletons bear out conclusions which are 

 not flattering to the appearance of the owners. 

 They were short of stature but powerfully built, 

 with strong, curiously-curved thigh-bones, the 

 lower ends of which are so fashioned that they 

 must have walked with a bend at the knees. Their 

 long depressed skulls had very strong brow ridges; 

 their lower jaws, of brutal depth and solidity, 

 sloped away from the teeth downwards and back- 

 wards, in consequence of the absence of that espe- 

 cially characteristic feature of the higher type of 

 man, the chin prominence. Thus these skulls are 

 not only eminently " Xeanderthaloid," but they 

 supply the proof that the parts wanting in the 

 original specimen harmonised in lowness of type 

 with the rest. 



After a very full discussion of the anatomical 

 characters of these skulls, M. Fraipont says: 



To sum up, we consider ourselves to be in a position 



to say that, having regard merely to the anatomical struc- 



