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NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



CHAP. V. 



the frontal bone to the occipital protuberance (d~] measures about 13| 

 inches. The transverse arc from one auditory foramen to the other 

 across the middle of the sagittal suture measures about 13 inches. 

 The sagittal suture (b c) is 5-J inches in length. The superciliary 

 prominences are well, but not excessively, developed, and are sepa 

 rated by a median depression in the region of the glabella. They 

 indicate large frontal sinuses. If a line joining the glabella and 

 the occipital protuberance (a d) be made horizontal, no part of the 

 occiput projects more than y^th of an inch behind the posterior ex 

 tremity of that line ; and the upper edge of the auditory foramen 

 is almost in contact with the same line, or rather with one drawn 

 parallel to it on the outer surface of the skull. 



Fig. 3 



Side view of the cast of a part of a human skull from a cave in the Neanderthal 

 near Diisseldorf. 



a The superciliary ridge and glabella. 

 b The coronal suture. 



c The apex of the lambdoidal suture. 

 d The occipital protuberance. 



' The Neanderthal skull, with which also I am acquainted only by 

 means of Professor Schaaffhausen's drawings of an excellent cast and 

 of photographs, is so extremely different in appearance from the Engis 

 cranium, that it might well be supposed to belong to a distinct race 

 of mankind. It is 8 inches in extreme length and 5*75 inches in 



