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ENGIS AND NEANDERTHAL SKULLS. 



CHAP. v. 



English . 



A 



21 



B 

 13} 



C 



12* 



7 



* In making the preceding statement, it must be clearly understood 

 that I neither desire to affirm that the Engis and Neanderthal skulls 

 belong to the Australian race, nor to assert even that the ancient 



Fig. 6 



Outlines of the skull from the Neanderthal, of an Australian skull from Port 

 Adelaide, and of the skull from the Cave of Engis, drawn to the same absolute 

 length, in order the better to contrast their proportions. 



a b As in figure 4, p. 80. 

 e The position of the auditory foramen of the Engis skull. 



skulls belong to one and the same race, so far as race is measured by 

 language, colour of skin, or character of hair. Against the con 

 clusion that they are of the same race as the Australians various 

 minor anatomical differences of the ancient skulls, such as the great 

 development of the frontal sinuses, might be urged ; while against 

 the supposition of either the identity, or the diversity, of race of the 

 two arises the known independence of the variation of cranium on 

 the one hand, and of hair, colour, and language on the other. 



' But the amount of variation of the Borreby skulls, and the fact 

 that the skulls of one of the purest and most homogeneous of existing 

 races of men can be proved to differ from one another in the same 

 characters, though perhaps not quite to the same extent, as the Engis 



