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FACTS AND FANCIES 



tons to those of i\ustralians and other rude 

 tribes, and of the ancient Danes of Borroby — 

 a people not improbably allied to the Estho- 

 nians and Fins — remarks that the manner in 

 which the individual heads of the most homoge- 

 neous rude races differ from each other " in the 

 same characters, though perhaps not to the same 

 extent with the Engis and Neanderthal skulls, 

 seems to prohibit any cautious reasoner from 

 affirming the latter to have necessarily been of 

 distinct races." My own experience in Amer- 

 ican skulls, and the still larger experience of Dr. 

 Wilson, fully confirm the wisdom of this caution. 

 . . . He adds : "Finally, the comparatively large 

 cranial capacity of the Neanderthal skull, over- 

 laid though it may be by pithecoid, bony walls, 

 and the completely human proportions of the ac- 

 companying limb-bones, together with the very 

 fair development of the Engis skull, clearly in- 

 dicate that the first traces of the primordial 

 stock whence man has been derived need no 

 longer be sought by those who entertain any 

 form of the doctrine of progressive develop- 

 ment in the newest Tertiaries, but that they may 

 be looked for in an epoch more distant from 

 that of the Elephas primigenius than that is 

 from us." If he had possessed the Cro-magnon 



