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solve these doubts, and to decide the question whether the 

 great supraciliary projections did, or did not, arise from 

 the development of the frontal sinuses, I requested Sir 

 Charles Lyell to be so good as to obtain for me from Dr. 

 Fuhlrott, the possessor of the skull, answers to certain 

 queries, and if possible a cast, or at any rate drawings, or 

 photographs, of the interior of the skull. 



Dr. Fuhlrott replied, with a courtesy and readiness for 



m a 



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Fig. 26. — Drawings from Dr. Fuhlrott's photographs of parts of the inte- 

 rior of the Neanderthal cranium. A. view of the under and inner surface of 

 the frontal region, showing the inferior apertures of the frontal sinuses (a). 

 B. corresponding view of the occipital region of the skull, showing the im- 

 pressions of the lateral sinuses (aa). 



