146 FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN. 



Geoffroy St. Hilaire's remarks are, it will be observed, 

 little but an echo of the philosophic doubts of the describer 

 and discoverer of the remains. As to the critique upon 

 Schmerling's figures, I find that the side view given by 

 the latter is really about T 3 c ths of an inch shorter than the 

 original, and that the front view is diminished to about 

 the same extent. Otherwise the representation 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 anatomist, Dr. Spring of 

 Liege, under whose direction an excellent plaster cast was 

 made for Sir Charles Lyell. It is upon and from a dupli- 

 cate of that cast that my own observations and the accom- 

 panying figures, the outlines of which are copied from the 

 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 entirely ab- 

 sent ; but the roof of the cranium, consisting of the front- 

 al, 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 coad- 

 justed pieces of the skull, and are faithfully displayed in 

 Schmerling's figure, are readily traceable in the cast. 

 The sutures are also discernible, but the complex disposi- 

 tion of their serrations, shown in the figure, is not obvious 

 in the cast. Though the ridges which give attachment to 



