president's address. Ixiii. 



skeleton was also lying on its left side, the head resting upon a 

 flint implement 6|in. long and 2in. broad, similar to the two 

 others. The man had a collar of 14 deer's teeth, with fine-cut 

 strisB, fish vertebrae, and pendants similarly striated. On and 

 around his head were deer's teeth, fish vertebrae, and a number of 

 little marine shells, Nassa neritia, all pierced ; under the knee of 

 the left leg were large perforated shells of the Genus Cyprtea. The 

 skull of the young man was also adorned with fish vertebrre and 

 shells {Nassa), several bone pendants, and a handsome collar, 

 which length of time had not displaced. It was composed of a 

 double row of perforated fish-vertebrje, and one row of Nassa, 

 Avhieh was separated at equal distances by striated deer's 

 teeth, and arranged in perfect symmetry. Below the double 

 row of fish-vertel^rte (four in each row) were three Nassce ; 

 then a deer's tooth, which divided them from the next series, 

 and so on. The collar evidenced some considerable artistic 

 taste on the part of these savages. The skull of the man was too 

 incomplete through posthumous deformation to permit an accurate 

 measurement. It was decidedly of long-headed type, with an 

 index of 63, while that of the young person was less typical with 

 an index of 76.27. The adult is allied to the Cro Magnon type, 

 by the pentagonal form of the skull, by the breadth of face, by the 

 relative narrowness of the nose, by the massive loAver jaw, and the 

 triangular shape of the chin. The teeth are well worn down, and 

 the crowns flat, indicating advanced age. On the other hand those 

 of the young person are little worn, and the last molar had not 

 come into use, showing that the age was not more than 20 years. 

 The other skeleton was discovered in the same cave some 10ft. 

 above the three others, as it has been already said, and farther 

 within. It Avas lying under a bed of cinders and burnt wood, 

 mixed Avith ochreous ferruginous red-earth, with debris of broken 

 bones and remains of animals of various species, some of which 

 are now extinct. Upon its head and limbs were ornaments similar 

 to those described above. The skull had well marked frontal 

 sinuses, it was lying facing the east, and close to the wall on the 



