80 SKULL OF ENGIS, NEAR LI^GE. chap. V. 



This skull Dr. Schmerling figured in his work, observing 

 that it was too imperfect to enable the anatomist to deter- 

 mine the facial angle, but that one might infer, from the 

 narrowness of the frontal jjortion, that it belonged to an in- 

 dividual of small intellectual development. He speculated 

 on its Ethiopian affinities, but not confidently, observing 

 truly that it would require many more specimens to enable 

 an anatomist to arrive at sound conclusions on such a point. 

 M. Geoflro}'' St. Hilaire and other osteologists, who examined 

 the specimen, denied that it resembled a negro's skull. When 

 1 saw the original in the museum at Liege, I invited Dr. 

 Spring, one of the j)i'ofessors of the university, to whom we 

 are indebted for a valuable memoir on the human bones 

 found in the cavern of Chauvaux near Namur, to have a 

 cast made of this Engis skull. He not only had the kind- 

 ness to comply with my request, but rendered a service to 

 the scientific world by adding to the original cranium 

 several detached fragments which Dr. Schmerling had ob- 

 tained from Engis, and which Avere found to fit in exactly, 

 80 that the cast represented at fig. 2 is more complete than 

 that given in the first plate of Schmerling's work. It exhibits 

 on the right side the position of the auditory foramen (see 

 fig. 6, p. 88), which was not included in Schmerling's figure. 

 Mr. Busk, when he saw this cast, remarked to me that, 

 although the forehead was, as Schmerling had truly stated, 

 somewhat narrow, it might nevertheless be matched by the 

 skulls of individuals of Euro])ean race, an observation since 

 fully borne out by measurements, as will be seen in the sequel. 



OBSERVATIONS BY PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE HUMAN SKULLS 

 OF ENGIS AND THE NEANDERTHAL. 



" The Encis skull, as originally figured by Professor Schmerling, 

 was ill a very imperfect state ; but other fragments have since been 

 added to it by the care of Dr. Spring, and the cast upon which my 



