FOSSIL MAN FROM LA MADELAINE AND LAUGEBIE BASSE. 



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moderately close transversal sinuosities shows, between the two supercilia, the 

 last vestiges of the medio-frontal suture. The suborbital cavities are very large, 

 two in number on the right side, represented on the left by a wide and relatively 

 deep groove. What remains of the nasal bones indicates a thin and prominent 

 nose. The interorbital space is only 25 millims. (0*98 inch); and the width of 

 the bones proper reaches only 8 millims. (O315 inch). The upper region of the 

 face (of which alone we knew any thing) gives nearly the same relative proportions 

 as the same part in the crania from Cro-Magnon, Laugerie Basse, &c. ; that is to 

 say, the median portion takes but little part in the transverse dilatation which is 

 remarked in them. 



The mandible, like the frontal, resembles the other similar pieces from the valley 

 of the Vezere; it reproduces their forms with a somewhat less injured appear- 

 ance. So far as can be judged from the fragmentary state in which it was found 



Figs. 94 and 95. 



( Copied, by permission of the publishers, MM. BaiUiere et fils, from the ' Crania Ethnica,' par MM. tie 



Quatrefages ct Hamy.) 



Fig. 94. Inferior Maxillary from La Madelaine. 

 (Seen from above.) 



Fig. 95. Inferior Maxillary from La Naulette. 

 (Seen from above.) 



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(fig. 94, and C. Plate IX. fig. 3), the rami diverge considerably ; what remains of 

 the chin gives it angular outlines, repeating on a smaller scale those of the chin 



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