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of a fig. 23) are well, but not excessively, developed, and are 
separated by a median depression. Their principal eleva- 
tion is disposed so obliquely that I judge them to be due to 
large frontal sinuses. 
If aline joining the glabella and the occipital protube- 
rance (a, 0, fig. 23) be made horizontal, no part of the occi- 
pital region projects more than ,1;th of an inch behind the 
posterior extremity of that line, and the upper edge of the 
auditory foramen(c) is almost in contact with a line drawn 
parallel with this upon the outer surface of the skull. 
A transverse line drawn from one auditory foramen to the 
other traverses, as usual, the forepart of the occipital fora- 
men. The capacity of the interior of this fragmentary skull 
has not been ascertained. 
The history of the Human remains from the cavern in the 
Neanderthal may best be given in the words of their original 
describer, Dr. Schaaffhausen,* as translated by Mr. Busk. 
“In the early part of the year 1857, a human skeleton 
was discovered in a limestone cave in the Neanderthal, near 
Hochdal, between Diisseldorf and Elberfeld. Of this, how- 
ever, I was unable to procure more than a plaster cast of the 
cranium, taken at Elberfeld, from which I drew up an ac- 
count of its remarkable conformation, which was, in the first 
instance, read on the 4th of February, 1857, at the meeting 
of the Lower Rhine Medical and Natural History Society, 
at Bonn.t Subsequently Dr. Fuhlrott, to whom science is 
indebted for the preservation of these bones, which were not 
at first regarded as human, and into whose possession they 
afterwards came, brought the cranium from Elberfeld to 
Bonn, and entrusted it to me for more accurate anatomical 
* On THE CRANIA OF THE MosT ANcIENT Races or Man. By Professor D. 
Schaaffhausen, of Bonn. (From Miuller’s Archiy., 1858, pp. 453.) With 
Remarks, and original Figures, taken from a Cast of the Neanderthal Cranium, 
By George Busk, F.R.S., &c. Natural History Review, April, 1861. 
+ Verhandl. d. Naturhist. Vereins der preuss. Rheinlande und Westphalens., 
xiv. Bonn, 1857. 
