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The long and other bones of the skeleton are, on the whole, less 

 remarkable than those of the Neanderthal or Spy remains, but the 

 peculiarities and primitive features which they possess are of much 

 the same order. The stature of the Chapelle-aux-Saints man is esti- 

 mated by Prof. Boule to have been about 1.611 meters (5 ft. 3 in.), 

 which is close to that of the Neanderthal man and the man of Spy. 

 The bones are robust; the extremities of the long bones are large. 

 The radii and ulna? and especially the tibia? and fibulae, are again, as 

 in other skeletons of the Neanderthal type, relatively short. There 



Fig. U. — Profiles of the cranium of a Chimpanzee, the cranium of La Cha- 

 pelle-aux-Saints, AND THAT OF A MODERN FRENCHMAN SUPERPOSED, AND 

 WITH A COMMON BASI-NASAL LINE EQUAL IN LENGTH FOR EACH. (After Boule; 



reproduced by MacCurdy, Smithsonian Report for 1909.) 

 Ba., Basion; Na., Nasion. 



is also the pronounced curvature to the radius; and thej-e are other 

 peculiarities about the specimens an enumeration of which in this 

 place is not feasible. Certain of these peculiarities indicate, accord- 

 ing to Prof. Boule, that the individual from whom the Chapelle-aux- 

 Saints skeletal remains proceed had, in common with others of the 

 Neanderthal type, not as yet reached a fully erect posture. 



The study of the brain of this individual, so far as possible from a 

 cast of the cranial cavity, also shows various features of importance.^ 



^ Boule, M., and R. Anthony. L'encfphale de rhomme fossile de La Chapelle-aux- 

 Saints. (L'Anthropologie, vol. 22, 1911, pp. 129-196.) 



