FOSSIL RhMAINS OF MAN. 145 



From the cave of Engihoul, opposite that Oi. Engis, on 

 the right bank of the Meuse, Schmerling obtained the re- 

 mains of three other individuals of Man, among which 

 were only two fragments of parietal bones, but many 

 bones of the extremities. In one case, a broken fragment 

 of an ulna was soldered to a like fragment of a radius by 

 stalagmite, a condition frequently observed among the 

 bones of the Cave Bear ( Ursus spelceus), found in the Bel- 

 gian caverns. 



It was in the cavern of Engis that Professor Schmer- 

 ling found, incrusted with stalagmite and joined to a 

 stone, the pointed bone implement, which he has figured 

 in lig. 7 of his Plate XXXVI, and worked flints were 

 found by him in all those Belgian caves, which contained 

 an abundance of fossil bones. 



A short letter from M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, published 

 in the Comptes Rendus of the Academy of Sciences of 

 Paris, for July 2nd, 1838, speaks of a visit (and apparently 

 a very hasty one) paid to the collection of Professor 

 ' Schermidt ' (which is presumably a misprint for Schmer- 

 ling) at Liege. The writer briefly criticises the drawings 

 which illustrate Schmerling's work, and affirms that the 

 " human cranium is a little longer than it is represented " 

 in Schmerling's figure. The only other remark worth 

 quoting is this : " The aspect of the human bones differs 

 little from that of the cave bones, with which we are 

 familiar, and of which there is a considerable collection in 

 the same place. With respect to their special forms, com- 

 pared with those of the varieties of recent human crania, 

 few certain conclusions can be put forward ; for much 

 greater differences exist between the different specimens 

 of well-characterized varieties, than between the fossil 

 cranium of Liege and that of one of those varieties se- 

 lected as a term of comparison." 

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