in THE NEANDERTHAL MAN. 169 



the words of their original describer, Dr. Schaaff- 

 hausen,* as translated by Mr. Busk. 



" In the early part of the year 1857, a human skeleton 

 was discovered in a limestone cave in the Neanderthal, 

 near Hochdal, between Dusseldorf and Elberfeld. Of this, 

 however, I was unable to procure more than a plaster 

 cast of the cranium, taken at Elberfeld, from which 1 

 drew up an account of its remarkable conformation, which 

 was, in the first instance, read on the 4th of February, 

 1857, at the meeting of the Lower Rhine Medical and 

 Natural History Society, at Bonn.f Subsequently Dr. 

 Euhlrott, to whom science is indebted for the preservation 

 of these bones, which were not at first regarded as human, 

 and into whose possession they afterwards came, brought 

 the cranium from Elberfeld to Bonn, and entrusted it to 

 me for more accurate anatomical examination. At the 

 General Meeting of the Natural History Society of Prus- 

 sian Rhineland and Westphalia, at Bonn, on the 2nd of 

 June, 1857,$ Dr. Fuhlrott himself gave a full account of 

 the locality, and of the circumstances under Avhich the 

 discovery was made. He was of opinion that the bones 

 might be regarded as fossil ; and in coming to this conclu- 

 sion, he laid especial stress upon the existence of dendritic 

 deposits, with which their surface was covered, and which 

 were first noticed upon them by Professor Mayer. To this 

 communication I appended a brief report on the results 

 of my anatomical examination of the bones. The conclu- 



* On the Crania of the most Ancient Races of Man. — • 

 By Professor D. Schaaffhausen, of Bonn. (From Muller's 

 Archie, 1858, p. 453.) With Remarks, and original Fig- 

 ures, taken from a Cast of the Neanderthal Cranium. By 

 George Busk, F.R.S., &c. Natural History Review, April, 

 1861. 



■\Yerhandl. d. Naturhist. Vereins <1 r r preuss. Rhein- 

 lande und Westphdlens., xiv. — Bonn, 1857. 



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