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first account of the find, before the Paris Academy of Sciences.' One 

 week later Messrs. Bouyssonie and Bardon presented before the 

 Academy their own observations, and these reports were followed at 

 short intervals by several others before the same scientific body.' 

 Subsequently the skull and other parts of the skeleton were subjected 

 by Professor Boule to a thorough study and comparison. The results 





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Fig. 22. — The interior of the La Chapelle cave. 



^ Boule, M., L'Homme fossile de la Chapelle-Aux-Saints. C. R. Acad. Sci. 

 Paris, Dec. '14, 1908. L' Anthropologic, Vol. 19, pp. S13-519, 1908; Vol. 20, 

 p. 257, 1909; Vol. 22, p. 129, 1911. 



^ Bouyssonie, A. and J., and Bardon, L., Decouverte d'un squelette huniain 

 mousterien a la bouffia de La Chapelle-Aux-Saints. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 

 Dec. 21, 1908. Boule, M., Sur la capacite cranienne des Hommes fossiles du 

 type dit de Neanderthal. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, May 17, 1909; Le squelette du 

 tronc et des membres de rHomme fossile de La Chapelle-Aux-Saints. C. R. 

 Acad. Sci. Paris, June 7, 1909. 



