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carnivores with whose bones they coexisted." And, as to their 

 antic[uity, '^I do not beheve that, on the basis of the information 

 relating to the circumstances under whicli the human bones were 

 found in the Brazil caves, mingled with the remains of mammals of 

 species partly extinct and partly still living, one can draw other con- 

 clusions than this, that it is i^ermitted to regard the contemporaneity 

 of the aborigines of Brazil and of a number of species of extinct 

 animals (Pliocene or Post-Pliocene) as more or less likely, but that 

 this contemporaneity should not pass in any way for demonstrated, so 

 it could serve as a basis of more extended conclusions." 



In 1888, finally, the entire human skeletal material from the Lagoa 

 Santa caves in the collections at Copenhagen and also that in London 

 was examined by Soren Hansen.^ The principal attention is given 

 again to the crania, yet some remarks are devoted also to other 

 bones of the skeleton, which, unfortunately, are for the most part 

 fragmentary. Measurements of 17 skulls are given. The numbers 

 designating the specimens are not the same as those used by Koll- 

 mann nor those of ten Kate, and the measurements differ in some 

 respects from those of both previous observers. A number of 

 dimensions in addition to those formerly recorded are given, as 

 the height of the skull, circumference, etc. The measurements are 

 as follows : 



Measurements of the Lagoa Santa sl'ulls by Soren Hansen- 



1 Hansen, Soren, Lagoa Santa Racen. En Samling af Afhandlingcr c Museo Lundii, i, Kjobenha^Ti, 

 1888, pp. 1-37. 

 ^ Table rearranged by A. H., but order of records, based on cephalic index, as in original. 



