CHAP. V. 



SKULL OF EflGIS, NEAR LI^GE. 



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observations are based (fig. 2) exhibits the frontal, parietal, and 

 occipital regions, as far as the middle of the occipital foramen, with 

 the squamous and mastoid portions of the right temporal bone 

 entire, or nearly so, while the left temporal bone is wanting. From 

 the middle of the occipital foramen to the middle of the roof of each 

 orbit, the base of the skull is destroyed, and the facial bones are 

 entirely absent. 



Fig. 2 

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Side view of the cast of part of a human skull found by Dr. Schmerling 

 embedded amongst the remains of extinct mammalia in the cave of Engis, near 

 Liege. 



a Superciliary ridge and glabella. 

 b Coronal suture. 



c The apex of the lambdoidal suture. 

 d The occipital protuberance. 



' The extreme length of the skull is 7'7 inches, and as its extreme 

 breadth is not more than 5' 25, its form is decidedly dolichocephalic. 

 At the same time its height (4| inches from the plane of the 

 glabello-occipital line (a d) to the vertex) is good, and the forehead 

 is well arched ; so that while the horizontal circumference of the 

 skull is about 20^- inches, the longitudinal arc from the nasal spine of 



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