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THE FOSSIL SKULLS. 



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Fig. 31 represents the contour of a skull of 

 this kind from Western Port, with the jaw 

 attached, and of the Neanderthal skull, both 

 reduced to one-third of the size of nature. A small 



Fig. 31. — An Australian skull from Western Port, in 

 the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, with the 

 contour of the Neanderthal skull. Both reduced to one- 

 third the natural size. 



additional amount of flattening and lengthening, 

 with a corresponding increase of the supraciliary 

 ridge, would convert the Australian brain case into 

 a form identical with that of the aberrant fossil. 



And now, to return to the fossil skulls, and to 

 the rank which they occupy among, or beyond, 



