436 THE CEANIOLOGY OF MAN AND ANTHROPOID APES. 



of the chart which accompanies this oration.) We shall discover from 

 specimens in our museum that the inhabitants of western Europe in 

 the later Tertiary and early Quaternarv period, as regards the ossifi- 

 cation and form, especially of tlie frontal region of their skulls, more 

 closely resembled that of the chimpanzee than the race of men now 

 inha biting P^urope. " 



Since Hunter's and Lawrence's time considerable progress has been 

 made in the sciences of geology and anthropology. Nevertheless, in 

 our search for knowledge concerning the origin and development of 

 prehistoric man in western Europe, we are still hampered l)y the lim- 

 ited supply of his remains. It could hardly have been otherwise, 

 considering the perishable nature of the human skeleton and the vast 

 length of time and the great geological changes which have occurred 

 since man appeared in our part of the world. But we have additional 

 evidence concerning the prehistoric inhabitants of this part of Europe, 

 for they have left us some of their imperishable handiwork in the 

 shape of flint and stone implements, which, during- the past century, 

 have been carefully studied in relation to the geological strata in 

 which the}^ were discovered, by Lord Avebur}^ Professors Bo\'d 

 Dawkins and Prestwich, Sir John Evans, the late Sir William Flower,* 

 together with many other English and foreig-n anthropologists. A 

 few characteristic specimens of these Paleolithic Hint instruments 

 which have been unearthed in pre-Glacial and in inter-Glacial forma- 

 tions in various parts of F^ngland may be seen on the shelves of our 

 uuiseum, which also hold.s casts and the skulls of the Neanderthal group 

 of men. From the form and workmanship of these stone implements 

 we are now able to classify and assign them to the various periods in 

 which they were manufactured ])y the early inhabitants of our part of 

 the world. 



these facts. On the other hand, Prof. L. Edinger is disposed to agree with the 

 late Professor Perls, that not a few men of preeminent intelle(>tual power have in 

 early life been affected with slight hydrocephalus, which, having abnf)rmally 

 e.\'panded their skulls, has then receded. The brain of such young people has been 

 al)le to attain a greater capacity than it would have acquired had there been no 

 hydrocei)halus to cximnd the skull cap. (The Anatomy of the Central Nervous 

 System of Man, ]>y L. Etlinger, M. I)., translated from fifth (ierman eilition by 

 Prof. W. S. Hall,]). 206.) 



« The Origin and Character of the British People, by N. C. Macnamara, p. 25. 



''Sir William Henry Flower, K. C. B., F. R. S., died on July 1, IH99. He was for 

 some years the conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng- 

 land, and the council of the college unanimously passed the following resolution at 

 their jneeting on July 13, 1899: 



"The (council hereby express their deep regri't at the death of Sir Williain Henry 

 Flower, K. C. B., F. R. S., and their sinci're sympathy with Lady Flower and the 

 mendjers of his family. The council remember how much Sir AVilliam Flower, 

 while conservator, did to advance the utility ami rei)utation of tlie inuscuni liy ilu' 

 skillful discharge of his duties, and by the eminent position which he won for him- 

 self among men of science, and they hereljy record their grateful appreciation of fiis 

 services to the college." 



