ENGIS AND NEANDERTHAL SKULLS. 



English . 



A 

 21 



B 



13J 



C 



12i 



D 



4A 



F 



5i 



" In making the preceding statement, it must be clearly under- 

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

 skulls belong to the Australian race, nor to assert even that the an- 



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. 



o, b As in figure 4, p. 80. 



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



cient skulls belong to one and the same race, so far as race is mea- 

 sured by language, color of skin, or character of hair. Against the 

 conclusion tliat 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, color, and language on the other. 



"JBut 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 



