WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN HRDLICKA 75 



in all probability still joined with it when it was originally found by 

 the laborers. They strengthen the suspicion that the skull may be not 

 fully normal (Hrdlicka). 



THE BRAIN 



All that can be known about the brain of the Piltdown skull is 

 what is shown by the internal surface of the several fragments ; and, 



Fig. 8. — Profile drawing of the brain cast taken from the reconstruction of 

 the Piltdown skull by Arthur Keith. It is represented half size and set within a 

 standard frame of lines which permits direct comparison between the various 

 drawings given here. The positions of the sutures between the containing 

 bones are indicated. The missing parts are stippled. (After Keith, Antiquity of 

 Man, 1925.) 



as there is but a portion of the side of the front and no base, not to 

 mention other large defects, it is plain that the obtainable information 

 must be quite meagre. If notwithstanding this we find in the litera- 

 ture on the subject some far-reaching statements, these cannot be 

 taken for much more than opinions ; and with the defects of the 

 original it is no wonder that some of these opinions, even by the best 

 men, differ widely. 



Thus, Professor G. Elliot Smith, one of the foremost living 

 students of the brain, in his " Preliminary Report on the Cranial 



