302 ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN 



the molar teeth of which are worn down to the 

 roots. 



" I possess two vertebrae, a first and last dorsal. 



" A clavicle of the left side (see Plate III., Fig. 1) ; although 

 it belonged to a young individual, this bone shows that he 

 must have been of great stature.* 



" Two fragments of the radius, badly preserved, do not 

 indicate that the height of the man, to whom they belonged, 

 exceeded five feet and a half. 



" As to the remains of the upper extremities, those which 

 are in my possession consist merely of a fragment of an 

 ulna and of a radius (Plate III., Figs. 5 and 6). 



" Figure 2, Plate IV., represents a metacarpal bone, con- 

 tained in the breccia, of which we have spoken ; it was 

 found in the lower part above the cranium : add to this 

 some metacarpal bones, found at very different distances, 

 half-a-dozen metatarsals, three phalanges of the hand, and 

 one of the foot. 



" This is a brief enumeration of the remains of human 

 bones collected in the cavern of Engis, which has pre- 

 served for us the remains of three individuals, surrounded 

 by those of the Elephant, of the Rhinoceros, and of Carni- 

 vora of species unknown in the present creation." 



From the cave of Engihoul, opposite that of Engis, on 

 the right bank of the Meuse, Schmerling 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 

 stalagmite, a condition frequently observed among the 

 bones of the Cave Bear ( Ursus spelseus'), 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. Geoflroy St. Hilaire, published 

 in the Comples Rendus of the Academy of Sciences ol 

 Paris, for July 2nd, 1838, speaks of a visit (and apparently 



* The figure of this clavicle measures 5 inches from end to end 

 in a straight line so that the bone is rather a small than a large one. 



