4 io SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR 



Heidelberg jaw is even more powerful than that of the 

 Chapelle skull. The lower jaw of a modern European 

 (Fig. 79), drawn to the same scale as the other two, and as 

 that of the chimpanzee (Fig. 81), is an elegant little thing 

 with its forwardly-projecting chin, its short measurement 

 from front to back, and the narrowness and delicacy of 

 its up-turned part or ramus, with its well-marked angle 

 at the lower corner and deeply cut upper border between 

 the condyle (hindermost projection with knob) and the 

 coronoid. 



The imperfect lower jaw (without teeth and with the 

 articular condyle broken away) of the Cromagnon skull, 

 drawn in Fig. 75, should also be compared : it is, though 

 broken, similar to that of the modern European. Lower 

 jaws differ in some of the points which we have been 

 looking at, from one another, but there is no known living 

 race of men the lower jaw of which is not far nearer to 

 that of the modern European (Fig. 79), than to that from 

 the Chapelle-aux-Saints or from Heidelberg (Fig. 82); 

 and I may add that the imperfect lower jaw of the 

 Neander-man skull, from the Spy Cave in Belgium, agrees 

 in the absence of chin and in other points with that of 

 Heidelberg and of the Chapelle skull. There is not 

 sufficient ground afforded by the characters of the lower 

 jaw for considering that the race indicated by the 

 Heidelberg specimen was distinct from the Neander race, 

 as may be seen by comparing Fig. 80 with Fig. 82. 



As these pages are going to press, I am able to add 

 that I have seen in Paris a very interesting and striking 

 restoration of the appearance in the flesh or during life 

 of the head of the man of the Chapelle-aux-Saints, 

 carefully modelled in Professor Boule's laboratory by a 

 young sculptor, by applying his clay to a cast of the 

 completed restoration of the skull. It is, I understand, 

 proposed to publish this restoration firstly as strictly 



