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should, apparently, be added, which would make its total length nearly 39 centims. 

 (15-3 in.), nearly equal to that assigned by M. Pruner-Bey to the fibula of the 

 Old Man of Cro-Magnon (C. Plate VI. fig. 4)*. 



M. Broca, in describing this latter, mentions particularly the depth of its longi- 

 tudinal sulci, and the prominence of the crest for the ligamentum interosseum 

 conditions essentially influenced by muscular actions. In our subject the former 

 has received an astonishing development. The external face of the bone, which 

 gives attachment to the lateral peronsei, is at the same time widened and sunk to 

 such a degree that the sulcus which furrows it, and which even on "No. 1" from 

 Cro-Magnon had the very unusual depth of 5 millims. (0'2 inch), penetrates here to 

 a maximum of 8 millims. (O3 inch) within the plane that unites the external and 

 anterior angles. The groove for the flexor hallucis longus is also very strongly 

 pronounced, as well as the rugosities for the inferior fibres of that muscle. The 

 linea interossea is salient and convex. The body of the bone, relatively stout, is 

 remarkable for its total outward and slightly hindward curvature a curvature, 

 like that of the humerus described above, not to be confounded with those result- 

 ing from rachitis, which are very different. In fine, the lower extremity is enor- 

 mous, and all its details extremely pronounced. 



We shall find again in the anatomy of the Skull of the Man of Laugerie the 

 analogies which strike us in studying his long bones. Indeed, in almost all the 

 portions which remain intact, it reproduces the traits belonging to the male crania 

 from the Shelter of Cro-Magnon. In its cephalic curves it assimilates particu- 

 larly to the cranium " No. 3," described at page 78, to which it is little inferior in 

 dimensions. Its antero-posterior diameter not exceeding 195 millims. (7'68 inches), 

 and its transverse diameter reaching 146 millims. (5'75 inches), the diminution 

 affects simultaneously and in nearly equal proportion all the bones of the cranial 

 arch : the frontal, equal to that of the cranium " No. 3 " from Cro-Magnon in the 

 dimensions of its base (diam. front, min. 97 millims. or 3'8 inches; biorb. ext. 

 Ill millims. or 4'37 inches; biorb. int. 101 millims. or 3 - 98 inches), is a little 

 shorter (length 135 millims. or 5'32 inches) and narrower in its maximum width 

 (118 (?) millims. or 4'65 inches). It has besides almost completely the morpho- 

 logy of the crania with which we compare it, resembling a little more closely 

 "No. 1" of the same Shelter by the existence of a small median arching com- 

 mencing immediately above the glabella. 



The parietal (the length of which it is difficult to estimate, on account of the 

 many fractures it has suffered) appears to measure 125 millims. (4'9 inches) along 



* See p. 83. 



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