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100 per cent ; in absolute amount twice as much as 

 the difference between that of the largest simian and 

 the smallest human capacity, so that in seeking an 

 ordinal difference between man and the apes, "it 

 would certainly be well to let go the head, though I 

 am afraid it does not mend matters much to lay hold 

 of the foot." 



And on January 25, 1862 : 



I have been skull-measuring all day at the College 

 of Surgeons. The Neanderthal skull may be described as 

 a slightly exaggerated modification of one of the two types 

 (and the lower) of Australian skulls. 



After the fashion of accounting for the elephant of 

 old, I suppose it will be said that it was imported. But 

 luckily the differences, though only of degree, are rather 

 too marked for this hypothesis. 



I only wish I had a clear six months to work at the 

 subject. Little did I dream what the undertaking to 

 arrange your three woodcuts would lead to. It will 

 come in the long-run, I believe, to a new ethnological 

 method, new modes of measurement, a new datum line, 

 and new methods of registration, 



If one bad but two beads and neither required sleep ! 



One immediate result of his investigations, which 

 appeared in a lecture at the Royal Institution 

 (February 7, 1862), "On the Fossil Remains of 

 Man," was incorporated in Man's Place in Nature. 

 But a more important consequence of this impulse 

 was that he went seriously into the study of Eth- 

 nology. Of his work in this branch of natural 



to larger states, and who thus exchanged a direct for a mediate 

 share in the imperial government. 



