in THE ENGIS SKULL. 105 



about the same extent. Otherwise the representa- 

 tion is not, in any way, inaccurate, but corresponds 

 very well with the cast which is in my possession. 



A piece of the occipital bone, which Schmerling 

 seems to have missed, has since been fitted on to 

 the rest of the cranium by an accomplished anat- 

 omist, Dr. Spring of Liege, under whose direction 

 an excellent plaster cast was made for Sir Charles 

 Lyell. It is upon and from a duplicate of that cast 

 that my own observations and the accompanying 

 figures, the outlines of which are copied from very 

 accurate Camera lucida drawings, by my friend 

 Mr. Busk, reduced to one-half of the natural size, 

 are made. 



As Professor Schmerling observes, the base of 

 the skull is destroyed, and the facial bones are en- 

 tirely absent; but the roof of the cranium, consist- 

 ing of the frontal, parietal, and the greater part 

 of the occipital bones, as far as the middle of the 

 occipital foramen, is entire, or nearly so. The left 

 temporal bone is wanting. Of the right temporal, 

 the parts in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 auditory foramen, the mastoid process, and a con- 

 siderable portion of the squamous element of the 

 temporal are well preserved (Fig. 23). 



The lines of fracture which remain between the 

 coadjusted pieces of the skull, and are faithfully 

 displayed in Schmerling's figure, are readily trace- 

 able in the cast. The sutures are also discernible, 

 but the complex disposition of their serrations, 



