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there is a considerable collection in the same place. With 
respect to their special forms, compared with those of the 
varieties of recent human crania, few certain conclusions 
can be put forward; for much greater differences exist be- 
tween the different specimens of well-characterized varieties, 
than between the fossil cranium of Liége and that of one of 
those varieties selected as a term of comparison.” 
Geoffroy St. Hilaire’s remarks are, it will be observed, 
little but an echo of the philosophic doubts of the describer and 
discoverer of the remains. As to the critique upon Schmer- 
ling’s figures, I find that the side view given by the latter 
is really about ths of an inch shorter than the original, 
and that the front view is diminished to about the same extent. 
Otherwise the representation is not, in any way, inaccurate, 
but corresponds very well with the cast which is in my posses- 
sion. 
A piece of the occipital bone, which Schmerling seems to 
have missed, has since been fitted on to the rest of the 
cranium by an accomplished anatomist, Dr. Spring of Liége, 
under whose direction an excellent plaster cast was made for 
Sir Charles Lyell. It is upon and from a duplicate of that 
cast that my own observations and the accompanying figures, 
the outlines of which are copied from very accurate Camera 
lucida drawings, by my friend Mr. Busk, reduced to one- 
half of the natural size, are made. 
As Professor Schmerling observes, the base of the skull 
is destroyed, and the facial bones are entirely absent ; but the 
roof of the cranium, consisting of the frontal, parietal, and 
the greater part of the occipital bones, as far as the middle 
of the occipital foramen, is entire or nearly so. The left 
temporal bone is wanting. Of the right temporal, the parts 
in the immediate neighbourhood of the auditory foramen, 
the mastoid process, aud a considerable portion of the squa- 
mous element of the temporal are well preserved (Fig. 23.). 
The lines of fracture which remain between the coadjusted 
pieces of the skull, and are faithfully displayed in Schmer- 
