602 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 
Taking all their features into consideration the brains of the fossil human 
beings of La Quina and La Chapelle appear to come nearer to the brains of the 
anthropoid apes than any other known human brains. 
3. The Brain of the Gibraltar Fossil Woman. By Professor ArrHuR 
Kerrn, M.D., F.R.C.S. 
4. Description of a Human Jaw of Paleolithic Antiquity from Kent's 
Cavern, Torquay. By W. L. H. Duckwortn, M.D., Sc.D. 
On the occasion of the meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science at Dundee, in September 1867, the Third Report was received 
from the Committee appointed to supervise the exploration of Kent’s Cavern, 
‘Torquay. The Report announced the discovery (on January 3, 1867) of a frag- 
mentary human upper jaw, embedded in the granular stalagmite floor, 20 inches 
W.L.H.D. eel. 
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Human jaw from Kent’s Cavern, Torquay. No. 1930. Only the right half was 
preserved. The left half in the figure is a reversed outline of the right half. 
The tracing is about five-sixths of the natural size. 
thick. This jaw was the most ancient representative of the human skeleton so 
far discovered in the cavern. Its associations indicated an antiquity correspond- 
ing to that of the extinct cave animals. At the time (1867) its value in evidence 
was extremely great. Nothing of the kind was subsequently met with either in 
or beneath the granular stalagmite (Pengelly, 1884). Forty-five years have 
passed, and (so far as is known) no detailed account of the specimen has ever been 
published. For this reason I have endeavoured to provide a fuller description 
than is available at present. The Council of the Natural History Society of 
Torquay most courteously lent me the specimen for the purposes of this study. 
It is hoped that the Council will be able to publish the report in their Journal 
before very long. 
The fragment (No. 1930, Case 7, of the Torquay Collection from Kent’s 
Cavern) is, as already said, a human upper jaw of which a good deal has been 
destroyed. ‘The remaining parts include the alveolar margin and palatine process, 
as well as the four teeth mentioned above. ‘They are the first premolar and the. 
three molars (of the right side). A rough crystalline deposit encrusts the bone, 
but the outline is quite distinct and the much-worn crowns of the teéth are. 
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