1G8 HUMAN FOSSILS III 



(on each side of a, Fig. 23) are well, but not ex- 

 cessively, developed, and are separated by a median 

 \ depression. Their principal elevation is disposed 

 ^ so obliquely that I judge them to be due to large 

 frontal sinuses. 



If a line joining the glabella and the occipital 

 protuberance (a, b, Fig. 23) be made horizontal, no 

 part of the occipital region projects more than -^ih 

 of an inch behind the posterior extremity of that 

 line, and the upper edge of the auditory foramen 

 (c) is almost in contact with a line drawn parallel 

 with this upon the outer surface of the skull. 



A transverse line drawn from one auditory fora- 

 men to the other traverses, as usual, the fore part of 

 the occipital foramen. The capacity of the interior 

 of this fragmentary skull has not been ascertained. 



The history of the Human remains from the 

 cavern in the Neanderthal may best be given in 

 the words of their original describer, Dr. Schaaff- 

 hausen, 1 as translated by Mr. Busk. 



" In the early part of the year 1857, a human skeleton was 

 discovered in a limestone cave in the Neanderthal, near 

 Hochdal, between Diisseldorf and Elberfeld. Of this, however, 

 I was unable to procure more than a plaster cast of the cranium, 

 taken at Elberfeld, from which I drew up an account of its 



1 On the Crania of the most Ancient Races of Man. By Pro 

 fessor D. Schaaffhausen, of Bonn. (From Miiller's Archiv., 

 1858, pp. 453.) With Remarks, and original Figures, taken 

 from a Cast of the Neanderthal Cranium. By George Busk, 

 F.R.S., &c. Natural History Review, April, 1861. 



