MAMMALIA. 9 



satisfactory teeth and bones found in a fissure in the Table-case 

 Carboniferous Limestone near Buxton, Derbyshire. A typical ' 



series of the Crag fossils is exhibited in Table-case 1a. 

 Madodon, Hi'pparion, Tapirus, Gazella, and Hyxnarctos, are 

 the most noteworthy genera. Some of the specimens may 

 have been washed out of Miocene deposits. 



SYSTEMATIC COLLECTION. 

 Class.— MAMMALIA. 



Sub-class I. — Eutheria. 



Oeder I.— primates. 



Sub-order 1. — Anthropoidea. 



As already mentioned, the bones and teeth of man are Table-case 

 very rare in geological formations — he is usually represented ^• 



merely by his handiwork. A few important specimens, 2, 3. 

 however, have been discovered, and plaster casts of these 

 are exhil tiled in Tal)le-case 1. There is a copy of the top 

 of a skull, of a very lowly type, found with the remains of 

 Lleistocene mammals in a cavern in the Neanderthal, near 

 Diisseldorf, Germany. There are also copies of two imperfect 

 skulls and some limb-bones of a similar lowly kind of man 

 (hscovered in undoubted association with Pleistocene mammals 

 in the cavern of Spy, near Namur, Belgium. These specimens 

 seem to represent a human race inferior to any now existing, 

 but comprising powerfully built individuals. The forehead 

 is low ; the bony ridges above the eyes are very prominent ; 

 and the chin is somewhat retreating. The radius and ulna 

 are unusually divergent in the middle of the fore-arm. The 

 femur is somewhat bent, and the tibia is comparatively 

 short, so that the leg cannot have been quite upright in 

 M'alking. 



Most (jf the actual bones of man preserved in the 

 collection are probably quite modern compared with the 

 primitive race just mentioned. In Table-case 1 there are 

 parts of the skeleton of an aged man found at a depth of 

 34 feet in the Thames mud during the excavation of Tilljury 

 Docks. In Pier-case 2 is placetl the famous human skeleton 



