Ill THE ENGIS SKULL 168 



" This is a brief enumeration of the remains of human bonea 

 collected in the cavern of Engis, which has preserved for us the 

 remains of three individuals, surrounded by those of the 

 Elephant, of the Rhinoceros, and of Garni vora of species un- 

 known in the present creation." 



From the cave of Engihoul, opposite that of 

 Engis, on the right bank of the Meuse, Schinerling 

 obtained the remains of three other individuals of 

 Man, among which were only two fragments of 

 parietal bones, but many bones of the extremities. 

 In one case, a broken fragment of an ulna was 

 soldered to a like fragment of a radius by stalag- 

 mite, a condition frequently observed among the 

 bones of the Cave Bear ( Ursus spelceus), found in 

 the Belgian caverns. 



It was in the cavern of Engis that Professor 

 Schmerling found, incrusted with stalagmite and 

 joined to a stone, the pointed bone implement, 

 which he has figured in Fig. 7 of his Plate 

 XXXVI, and worked flints were found by him 

 in all those Belgian caves, which contained an 

 abundance of fossil bones. 



A short letter from M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, pub- 

 lished in the " Comptes Rendus " of the Academy 

 of Sciences of Paris, for July 2nd, 1838, speaks of a 

 visit (and apparently a very hasty one) paid to the 

 collection of Professor " Schermidt " (which is pre- 

 sumably a misprint for Schmerling) at Liege. The 

 writer briefly criticises the drawings which illustrate 

 Schmerling's work, and affirms that the " human 



