318 ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN 



In reply to my questions Dr. Fuhlrott writes that the 

 occipital bone " is in a state of perfect preservation as 

 far as the upper semicircular line, which is a very strong 

 ridge, linear at its extremities, but enlarging towards the 

 middle, where it forms two ridges (bourrelets), united by 

 a linear continuation, which is slightly depressed in the 



middle." 



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a a 



Fio. 25. Drawings from Dr. Fuhlrolt's photographs of parts of the 

 interior of the Neanderthal omnium. A. view of the under and 

 Inner surface of the frontal region, showing the inferior apertures of 

 the frontal sinuses (a). B. corresponding view of the occipital region 

 of the skull, showing the impressions of the lateral sinuses (a a). 



" Below the left ridge the bone exhibits an obliquely 

 inclined surface, six lines (French) long, and twelve lines 

 wide/' 



This last must be the surface, the contour of which is 

 shown in Fig. 24, A., below b. It is particularly interesting, 

 as it suggests that, notwithstanding the flattened condition 

 ol the occiput, the posterior cerebral lobes must have 

 projected considerably beyond the cerebellum, and as it 



