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As to the other human bones deposited at the British Museum with 

 the skull, and those now added, all that may be said is that they 

 proceed from several skeletons of modern size and form ; that some 

 of them, at least, probably came from other parts of the cave ; and 

 that there is no proof, and but a remote possibility, of any of them 

 belonging to the skull. 



The skull itself is positively not the skull of any now known Afri- 

 can types of man or their normal variants. Neither is it any known 

 pathological monstrosity, such as gigantism or leontiasis. It is a most 

 remarkable specimen of which the age, provenience, history, and 

 nature are still anthropological puzzles. 



Morphologically the skull is frequently associated now with the 

 Neanderthal type of Europe. This may be fundamentally correct, 

 but only to that extent. In its detailed characteristics the specimen 

 in some respects is inferior, in others superior to anything known as 

 yet of the Neanderthal man. 



Meanwhile mining operations at Broken Hill are proceeding. They 

 will gradually do away with what may still remain of the former bone 

 crevice; and they will soon, if they have not already, involve the 

 second kopje with its crevices. All this work should be intently 

 watched, for any day it may uncover new evidence of much im- 

 portance. 



THE BRITISH MUSEUM REPORT ON THE RHODESIAN REMAINS 



While the preceding was in preparation the long expected British 

 Museum report on the Rhodesian remains appeared. It is a compound 

 report, by 8 authors, with an introduction by Dr. Bather.^ The skeletal 

 remains are not described by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, but by the 

 zoologist of the Museum, Mr. Pycraft ; ' while the brain, as seen 

 from an endocranial cast, is ably studied by Professor Elliot Smith. 



Dr. Bather's succinct preface and introduction, in view of the 

 history of the find as published in 1925-26 and recorded in the pre- 

 ceding pages, leaves the student unsatisfied. 



^ Rhodesian Man arid Associated Remains. British Museum, London, 1928. 

 Preface and Introduction by F. A. Bather, pp. iii-iv, ix-xiii. Description of the 

 Skull and Other Human Remains from Broken Hill, by W. P. Pycraft, pp. 1-51, 

 3 pis., II figs. Endocranial Cast Obtained from the Rhodesian Skull, by G. Elliot 

 Smith, pp. 52-58, 7 figs. The Pathology of the Left Temporal Bone of the Rhode- 

 sian Skull, by M. Yearsley, pp. 59-63, i fig. The Teeth of Rhodesian Man, by 

 J. T. Carter, pp. 64-65, i fig. The Associated Stone Implements, by R. A. Smith, 

 pp. 66-69, 2 figs. ; and. The Fauna, by A. T. Hopwood, Dorothea M. A. Bate, 

 and W. E. Swinton, pp. 69-75, i fig. 



" The essential measurements in Mr. Pycraft's account should tally with those 

 of the writer, for they were made jointly (Nov., 1927). 



