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portion of the shaft. The longest piece comprises the lower two 

 thirds of the bone. It is plainly the left bone of a nearly-adult female. 

 The shaft is of about medium female strength, and the whole bone is 

 much like some modern humeri. The shaft approaches type i (pris- 

 matic) in shape at the middle, becoming regularly prismatic in the 

 lower third. The deltoid eminence is very moderate, the semi-circular 

 canal very shallow. The lower extremity shows a pronounced de- 

 velopment of the mesial condyle, one of the few features in which 

 the bone dififers from the modern. The condyle is not merely promi- 

 nent but also stout, with a large facet for the teres and flexor muscles. 

 There is a very large perforation of the septum ; and the olecranon 

 fossa is distinctly more spacious and deep than it is in modern humeri. 

 The articular facets fall well within the range of their variation in 

 modern bones. • 



Dimensions at middle, 2.0 x 1.5 cm. ; index, 75.0. 



The lower third of another left humerus is also fairly well pre- 

 served. This may have been the humerus of another female, though 

 this is not certain. The shaft is slightly broader but a trace less high 

 than that of the previous bone; it is equally prismatic (lower third). 

 The bone comes from a fully adult subject. There is no perforation 

 of the septum. The mesial condyle is again markedly developed, even 

 slightly more so than in the first bone, and is equally stout. The 

 olecranon fossa is large and deep. The articular surfaces resemble 

 fairly those in modern bones. The maximum breadth of the lowest 

 end is 6.7 cm., which is rather large, but this is due in an important 

 measure to the overdevelopment of the mesial condyle. Without this 

 condyle the lower end looks feminine. 



A third specimen, also the lower third, is stronger than the two 

 previous, is apparently masculine, and dififers from both the preceding 

 in the absence of the highly developed mesial condyle, the part being 

 developed much as it is in modern bones. The olecranon fossa is once 

 more very large and deep, the coronoid shallow. There is a small 

 perforation of the septum. 



The radii. — Present, fragments. The best of these is evidently 

 an adult bone, of originally fair length, of moderate strength, and of 

 but moderate curvature, differing in the latter respect from the usually 

 much arched western Neanderthal radii. There are in addition parts 

 of seven right and three left bones. All are slender, some at least 

 being plainly feminine. In form they are close to those of recent man, 

 except in the uppermost portion (tuberosity, neck and head), where 

 some differences are observable. The tuberosity appears, in some 



