THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 63 



The first thing to observe in Mr. 

 Darwin's pedigree of man is its extreme 

 length. His most enthusiastic follower, 

 Professor Huxley, once compared it to that 

 which some Englishmen are fond of 

 boasting about, viz., their descent from 

 some of the Norman robbers, who came over 

 from Normandy with "the Conqueror," as- 

 James I.'s witty retort to one of the Lumley 

 family shows. He was boasting that he 

 was descended from a certain " Adam 

 Lumley," who belonged to that piratical 

 crew. "Well, mon, I dinna knothat Adam 

 (referring to him who was expelled from 

 Paradise) was a Lumley " ! That curious 

 class of speculators, the so-called " Anglo- 

 Israelites," declare that the English can 

 trace their pedigree from Abraham without 

 a missing link. The noble French family 

 of Montmorenci boast that their founder 

 was a contemporary of Noah, who pre- 

 served the archives of the Montmorencies 

 by taking them into the Ark. A certain 

 Welsh chieftain used to display his genea- 

 logical tree to his wondering friends, in 



