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and are separated by a median depression. Their princi- 

 pal 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 protu- 

 berance (a, b, fig. 23) be made horizontal, no part of the 

 occipital region projects more than r l ? 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 foramen to 

 the other traverses, as usual, the forepart 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 the words of their 

 original describer, Dr. Schaaffhausen,* 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 Diisseldorf and Elberfeld. Of 

 this, however, I was unable to procure more than a plaster 

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

 drew up an account of its remarkable conformation, 

 which was, in the first instance, read on the 4th of Febru- 

 ary, 1857, at the meeting of the Lower Rhine Medical 

 and Natural History Society, at Bonn.*)* Subsequently 



* On the Crania of the most Ancient Races of Man. By Professor 

 D. Schaaffhausen, of Bonn. (From Midler's Archiv., 1858, pp. 453.) With 

 Remarks, and original Figures, taken from a Cast of the Neanderthal Cranium. 

 By George Busk, F.R.S., &c. Natural History Review, April, 1861. 



f Verhandl. d. Naturhist. Vereins der preuss. Rheinlande und Westpha- 

 lens., xiv. Bonn^ 185*7. 



