80 SKULL OF ENGIS, NEAR Ll GE. CHAP. V. 



This skull, Dr. Schmerling figured in his work, observing 

 that it was too imperfect to enable the anatomist to deter 

 mine the facial angle, but that one might infer, from the 

 narrowness of tbe frontal portion, that it belonged to an in 

 dividual of small intellectual development. He speculated 

 on its Ethiopian affinities, but not confidently, observing 

 truly that it would require many more specimens to enable 

 an anatomist to arrive at sound conclusions on such a point. 

 M. Greoffroy St. Hilaire and other osteologists, who examined 

 the specimen, denied that it resembled a negro's skull. When 

 I saw the original in the museum at Liege, I invited Dr. 

 Spring, one of the professors of the university, to whom we 

 are indebted for a valuable memoir on the human bones 

 found in the cavern of Chauvaux near Namur, to have a 

 cast made of this Engis skull. He not only had the kind 

 ness to comply with my request, but rendered a service to 

 the scientific world by adding to the original cranium 

 several detached fragments which Dr. Schmerling had ob 

 tained from Engis, and which were found to fit in exactly, 

 so that the cast represented at fig. 2 is more complete than 

 that given in the first plate of Schmerling's work. It exhibits 

 on the right side the position of the auditory foramen (see 

 fig. 6, p. 88), which was not included in Schmerling's figure. 

 Mr. Busk, when he saw this cast, remarked to me that, 

 although forehead was, as Schmerling had truly stated, some 

 what narrow, it might nevertheless be matched by the skulls 

 of individuals of European race, an observation since fully 

 borne out by measurements, as will be seen in the sequel. 



OBSERVATIONS BY PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE HUMAN SKULLS 

 OF ENGIS AND THE NEANDERTHAL. 



' The Engis skull, as originally figured by Professor Schmerling, 

 was in a very imperfect state ; but other fragments have since been 

 added to it by the care of Dr. Spring, and the cast upon which my 



