ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN 305 

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 ance (a, b, Fig. 22) be made horizontal, no part of the 



occipital region projects more than iSth 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 skuU. 



A transverse line drawn from one auditory foramen to 

 the other traverses, as usual, the forepart 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. Schaaffhausen,* 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 remarkable conformation, which 

 was, in the first instance, read on the 4th of February, 

 1857, at the meeting of the Lower Rhine Medical and 

 Natural History Society, at Bonn.f Subsequently Dr. 

 Fuhlrott, to whom science is indebted for the preserva- 

 tion of these bones, which were not at first regarded as 

 human, and into whose possession they afterwards came, 

 brought the cranium from Elberfeld to Bonn, and en- 

 trusted it to me for more accurate anatomical examination. 

 At the General Meeting of the Natural History Society of 

 Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia, at Bonn, on the 2nd 

 of June, 1857,$ Dr. Fuhlrott himself gave a full account of 

 the locality, and of the circumstances under which the 

 discovery was made. He was of opinion that the bones 

 might be regarded as fossil ; and in coming to this con- 

 clusion, he laid especial stress upon the existence of 

 dendritic deposits, with which their surface was covered, 



* ON THE CRANIA OF THE MOST ANCIENT RACES OF MAN. By 

 Professor D. Schaaffhausen, of Bonn. (From Mailer's Archiv., 1858, 

 pp. 453.) With Remarks, and original Figures, taken from a Cast 

 of the Neanderthal Cranium. By George Busk, F.R.S., etc. Natural 

 History Review. April, 1861. 



t Verhandl. d. Naturhist. Vereins der preuss. Rheinlande und 

 Westphalens., xiv. Bonn, 1857. 



I Ib. Correspondenzblatt. No. 2. 



