ON THE INTERMENTS OF PRIMITIVE MAN. 



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races of Europe, standing in need of no development 

 whatever.* 



No. 9. LARGE SKULL OF AN ENGLISHMAN, SHOWING 

 A NEANDERTHALOID DEVELOPMENT. IN MY OWN 

 COLLECTION. 



The Neanderthal skull has actually been assumed of 

 late by two eminent French craniologists to be the repre- 

 sentative type of the first and most ancient prehistoric 

 race of man. This view is based upon hypothetical reason- 

 ings, and stands in the face of the undeniable fact of the 

 colossal size of the skull, and necessarily, of the brain of 

 the man whose remains were found in the Neanderthal 

 cave. 



* The Neanderthal Skull : its peculiar conformation explained anatomi- 

 cally. By Joseph Barnard Davis, M.D. Memoirs of the Anthropological 

 Society. I. 281. 



