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of the skull, nor can it be called a retreating fore- 

 head; on the contrar}^ the antero-posterior con- 

 tour of the skull is well arched, so that the dis- 

 tance along that contour, from the nasal depres- 

 sion to the occipital protuberance, measures about 

 13.75 inches. The transverse arc of the skull, 

 measured from one auditory foramen to the other, 

 across the middle of the sagittal suture, is about 

 13 inches. The sagittal suture itself is 5.5 inches 

 long. 



The supraciliary prominences or brow-ridges 

 (on each side of a, Fig 23) are well, but not ex- 

 cessively, developed, and are separated by a median 

 depression. Their principal elevation is disposed 

 so obliquely that I judge them to be due to large 

 frontal sinuses. 



If a line joining the glabella and the occipital 

 protuberance (a, ~b, Fig. 23) be made horizontal, no 

 part of the occipital region projects more than T V th 

 of an inch behind the posterior extremity of that 

 line, and the upper edge of the auditory foramen 

 (c) is almost in contact with a line drawn parallel 

 with this upon the outer surface of the skull. 



A transverse line drawn from one auditory fora- 

 men to the other traverses, as usual, the fore part of 

 the occipital foramen. The capacity of the interior 

 of this fragmentary skull has not been ascertained. 



The history of the Human remains from the 

 cavern in the Neanderthal may best be given in 



